RT Journal
T1 LOndon
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD July 20
VO 93
IS 3
SP 219
OP 220
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710030055021
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710030055021
AB Mind and Matter 
    In the Herbert Spencer Lecture on Psychologic Conceptions in Other Sciences, delivered at Oxford, Dr. C. S. Myers, F.R.S., maintained that the once striking characteristics distinguishing matter from mind were fading rapidly. Mind appeared to be no more "unsubstantial" than matter; matter to be no more "predicable" than mind. To account for the evolution, the history and conduct of the universe or of any organized individual within the universe, whether relating to mind, life or matter, not only mechanical principles but also a certain adapting, selecting, guiding activity must ultimately be included among the first principles of science. He proposed to consider how far our knowledge of the mental world was helpfully applicable to the material world. Just as there was nothing absolute in our spatial or temporal experience or in the quality of our sensations, so there was nothing absolute in the intensity of the latter.