[150] 'Der menschliche Wille,' p. 439. The last sentence is rather freely translated—the sense is unaltered.
[151] Huxley's 'Elementary Lessons in Physiology,' lesson xii.
[152] See the admirable passage about success at the outset, in his Handbuch der Moral (1878), pp. 38-43.
[153] J. Bahnsen: 'Beiträge zu Charakterologie' (1867), vol i, p. 209.
[154] See for remarks on this subject a readable article by Miss V. Scudder on 'Musical Devotees and Morals,' in the Andover Review for January. 1887.
[CHAPTER V.]
THE AUTOMATON-THEORY.
In describing the functions of the hemispheres a short way back, we used language derived from both the bodily and the mental life, saying now that the animal made indeterminate and unforeseeable reactions, and anon that he was swayed by considerations of future good and evil; treating his hemispheres sometimes as the seat of memory and ideas in the psychic sense, and sometimes talking of them as simply a complicated addition to his reflex machinery. This sort of vacillation in the point of view is a fatal incident of all ordinary talk about these questions; but I must now settle my scores with those readers to whom I already dropped a word in passing (see [Footnote 6]) and who have probably been dissatisfied with my conduct ever since.