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Excerpt from The Problem of Mind and Body
In the account of his visit to Thomas Carlyle at Craigenputtock, Emerson tells us how they went out to walk over the hills and sat to talk of the immortality of the soul. "It was not Carlyle's fault," says the American seer, "that we talked on tins topic, for he has the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken." The reading of the volume before us has called up again that incident and these words. For there is to some temperaments a similar shrinking from the discussion of the problem of Body and Mind which has, from the time of Descartes at least, been the pons asinorum of Philosophy. One might well be pardoned for a hesitancy in entering upon the serious consideration of a problem for the solution or attempted solution of which nothing less than a whole metaphysic, a reasoned view of the whole structure of reality, is finally demanded. To other temperaments however this is the excitement, this the challenge. Such do not petulantly complain of the variety of offered answers to this fundamental question.
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