of mental life may be said to belong to one self. We are now concerned with the mind as actually made known through experience, swept by emotions, a prisoner of ideas. No one ever feels or beholds the self, and no one controls the self. What we truly mean by the self only careful thinking can tell us after we have considered the data out of which man rears his sentiments and thoughts into a comprehensive idea of the soul. To attain "self -control" is to understand and direct the psychophysical energies which play upon the inner centre. It is solely a question of processes at first, the processes which we awaken into, and which relate us to the far past, to all that is around us here and now. In actual process of evolution we do not yet apprehend ourselves as unitary souls, but as creatures of lower and higher desires, moods, emotions, volitions, and ideas. We may indeed will to be consistent selves but we have advanced very far in knowledge of mental life if we have so far sounded human duality as to know in ideal terms what it means to be self-consistent. ¹

¹ The reader who is unacquainted with psychological description will find a very readable account of the phases of mental life here briefly referred to in Professor James's Psychology, Briefer Course; New York, Henry Holt & Co. See especially the chapters on Habit, The Will, The Stream of Thought. Another excellent volume with which to begin the study is Miss Calkins's A First Book in Psychology; New York, Macmillan & Co., 1910. In Professor Royce's Outline of Psychology, introductory chapters, the reader is introduced to a type of psychological description which makes the intimate relationship of the mind to the brain very clear.