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THE MIND AND THE BRAIN[1]
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed.
First let us say how the question presents itself to us. The fact which we must take as
- ↑ L’Ame et le Corps.—Disagreeable as it is to alter an author’s title, the words “Soul and Body” had to be abandoned because of their different connotation in English. The title “Mind and Body” was also preoccupied by Bain’s work of that name in this series. The title chosen has M. Binet’s approval.—Ed.
