Sir-Surely "Argosy," Te Awamutu, is too dogmatic in asserting. that "the mind isa part of the body and cannot exist without it," Surely he is confusing the mind with,the brain. The brain, being’ physical, can be observed and studied directly. But science’ does not pretend to be able to observe the mind directly. We can only observe the behaviour of the mind, Upon the data thus collected psychologists have formed various and conflicting theories about the mind itself. But these data are confined to the behaviour of the mind during physical life and provide no answer to the question of the "mind’s. survival of bodily death. Hence no one who relies upon the evidence of observed phenomena can afford to be dogmatic on that subject. But to anyone whv approaches the subject in the true scientific spirit. of open-mindedness there .is a mass of data available which points "to the probability that the mind, person‘ality, or soul-call. it what you will- | does indeed survive death, as the greater part of mankind has believed throughout recorded history and» still does, I think. Some of this data is to be found in F. W: H. Myers’s celebrated work Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. *%
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SATCHELL
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Page 32
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