[1] The view of the mind-body problem assumed here is defended and
maintained with references to the contemporary authorities who hold it,
in _The Meaning of Psychology_ by C. K. Ogden, Chapter II. (London,
Kegan Paul; New York, Harpers; 1926.)
[2] For a further discussion of attitudes see the author’s _Principles
of Literary Criticism_, Chapter XV (International Library of
Psychology).
[3] See _The Foundations of Aesthetics_, by C. K. Ogden, James Wood and
the author, pp. 74 ff. for a description of such experience.
[4] _I.e._ thoughts which are both true and evidenced, in the narrower,
stricter senses. For a discussion of some relevant senses of ‘truth’
and ‘knowledge’ see _Principles of Literary Criticism_, Chapters xxxiii
and xxxiv.
[5] On this point the study of the child’s questions included in _The
Language and Thought of the Child_ by J. Piaget (Kegan Paul, 1926), is
illuminating.
[6] The remarks of Wittgenstein (_Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_, 6.5,
6.52), which superficially resemble this, should be consulted, if only
to show how important the _context_ of a statement may be; for what is
said above should lead not towards but away from all forms of mysticism.
[7] For an account of the various senses of truth and of the ways in
which they may be distinguished in discussion cf. _The Meaning of
Meaning_, by C. K. Ogden and the author, Chapters VII and X.
[8] To those familiar with Mr. Eliot’s _The Waste Land_, my
indebtedness to it at this point will be evident. He seems to me
by this poem, to have performed two considerable services for this
generation. He has given a perfect emotive description of a state
of mind which is probably inevitable for a while to all meditative
people. Secondly, by effecting a complete severance between his poetry
and _all_ beliefs, and this without any weakening of the poetry, he
has realised what might otherwise have remained largely a speculative
possibility, and has shown the way to the only solution of these
difficulties. “In the destructive element immerse. That is the way.”