The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-04-12

UAzty4RH organ in concentrated
HSytS%4EEN thought upon given
g&SH4y subject, subjective mind,
drawing upon the fund of knowl-
edge that has been gained in years
of experience and study, produces
spontaneously correlative data. 1t
is this spontaneity of action of the
subjective mind that distinguishes
memory from recollection. Recol-
lection being, as the name implies,
the more laborious effort of the
objective mind to reassemble facts
with which the brain was hitherto
impressed. Also, it is this action
of the subjective mind in bringing
freely to the fore pertinent data
that we term association of ideas.
AS an artisan with but inferior
tools is greatly handicapped in
producing a first-class finished
product, so is a mind that has but
an inferior brain organ at it's COM
mand hindered greatly in it's opera
tions. Hence, the greatest heritage
that posterity may have of it's par
ents. is that of being we'll born.
Whether or not we are in full SYM
pathy with the compulsory eugen-
les movement, we dare not, in
justice to the generations yet to
come, be oblivious to the fact that
the mental as we'll as the physical fit
ness or unfitness of the parents finds
expression in the offspring. And
if of these two-a sound body or a
sound mind-I could have but one,
I would choose a healthy, active
brain, even though the body be
imperfect, rather than the oppo-
site; and would say, with Shake
speare: ''The mind shall banquet.
though the body pine"
This is not to be understood as
eliminating the personal equation:
neither does it contradict my for
mer statement regarding the con-
trolling influence of the psychic
self.being; for if the mind. factors
are energised by a different ego,
the same brain may be made to
produce greater, or will be limited
to lesser, results, according to the
directive inclinatiOns of the ego.
Objective mind is content if the
grosser animal nature is satisfied;
but subjective mind is sensitive to
pains of shame, lost hopes, van
ished goals. Those persons over
whom objective mind holds sway,
but live to eat-with all that that
implies. Those under the more eX-
allied dominion of subjective mind
find their highest pleasure not in
the qualification of their purely
physical wants, but in nourishine
and enriching the mind
True, the more sordid objective,
minded person is, by virtue of his
very grossness, immune from the
exquisite torture which, in the
shadowed hours, afflicts the soul OF
his more sensitive fellow. But the
subjective-minded person would
not change places with such an
one: rather, he would say, with
Milton:
Who would lose
Though full of pain, this intellectual
being,
Those thoughts that wander through
eternity?
We might further illustrate the
duality of mind, by defining the
objective factor as male and the
subjective as female. For the dis
tinction between the masculine anC
feminine is no less clearly defined
in things organic, inanimate, thar
in tbs animal realm, in sentient
beings.
In botany, the line is drawn be-
tween the stamen and antheridia
and the pistillates. The two gen
ders are distinct in the vegetable
in the garden, in the product O.
the field. In corn, for instance