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For the purposes of the present consideration of the
subject before us,
we shall rest content with the fundamental postulate that “E
very man or
woman has a mind,” and the corollary that when an intellig
ent man or
woman speaks of “myself,” he or she is conscious that hi
s or her “mind”
has a more intimate relation to that “self” than has his
or her “body.” The
“body” is usually recognized as “belonging to” the “self
,” while the “mind”
is usually so closely identified with the “self” that it is
difficult to
distinguish them in thought or expression.
Many philosophers and metaphysicians have sought to tell us “
just
what” the mind is; but they usually leave us as much in doubt a
s before
the so-called explanation. As the old Persian poet has sai
d, we usually
“come out the door in which we went,” in all such discussi
ons and
speculations concerning the nature of mind, or “just wha
t mind really is.”
We can, and do, know much about how the mind works, but
we know
little or nothing about what the mind really is. But, for
that matter, so far
as practical purposes are concerned, it makes very li
ttle difference to us
just what the mind is, providing we know just how it wo
rks, and how it
may be controlled and managed.