The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-04-12
MENTAL PHENOMENA
Evidences of the Duality of Mind It's Effect Upon
the Thought Actions and Progress of Mankind
Paper Read Before the Prison Chauauqua, By Mr. L.



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ear.
AS in all of the animal kingdom
the male of the species is the
stronger, even more gross and
coarse, than the female, so is OBJ
jective mind more gross than sub
jective. Subjective mind, even as
the female of the species, inspires
with the finer instincts, nobler as
pirations; and that person is gross
or refined in proportion to the de-
gree of control exercised by his
psychic self-being over the respec-
tive mind factors.
The worlds greatest dreamers,
philosophers. poets, artists, ,idealists,
have, ! believe, been men in whom
the subjective mind dominated:
while, on the other hand, the noted
warriors, generals, ct al, were
men in whom the coarser objective
mind held supremacy.
1t sometimes happens in mar
riage that the contracting parties
are, in their natures and disposi-
tions, so antithetical that it is
practically impossible for there to
be a harmonious blending of their
natures, without which there is
domestic infelicity, even crude
hostilities. And in the arguments
that ensue, sometimes the husband,
sometimes the wife, holds for a
season argumentative domination.
So when we say of man that
he is level headed, that he is of an
equabIe disposition, that he is
we'll balanced, we mean that the
two factors of mind are harmoni-
ously united in mental wedlock
though we may not be sufficiently
conversant with psychology to so
define it.
When this harmony does not
exist, the person becomes very
like that puzzling character. DR..
Jekyll, portrayed by Stevenson in
his singular romance. In such an
one, now the objective mind holds
full sway, and the person in conse-
quence becomes gross, coarse.
sometimes even bestial: again, the
objective subsidies, the subjective
is in the ascendency, and the same
person becomes for the time cour-
teous and refined.
In substantiation of which, in
stances might be cited by the
score. One in particular stands
out with great prominence: Lord
Byron. Here was man in whom
the duality of mind was demon
strated by a character as mutable
as the above mentioned DR.. Jekyll.
Of so great merit were some of
his efforts that Sir Walter Scott
said of him, that he matched
Milton on his own ground"
But he prostituted his genius tc
so low level, that from it's moi.
some deeps he gave voice to senti.
ments that caused Lady Caroline
Lamb to say of his works: They
are mad, bad and dangerous to
know" And so completely did he
lay his mind and his body upon
the altar of Bacchus, that, at ar
age when he should have been al
the zenith of mental vigor and
physical strength, from the depths
of his tortured soul this eligiat
wall of anguish issued forth:
My life is in the yellow leaf,
The flowers and fruits of love are gone:
The worm, the anguish, and the grief,
Are mine alone.
Poe, Wilde. Paine, and others
were governed to their hurt by
mind-factors improperly mated
Raised for a season by subjective
mind to sublime heights of inspira
tion, only to be submerged by OBJ
{ jective mind in the fouling deeps
of degradation.