This book affirms the reality of spirit and the reality of matter and tries to determine the relation of the one to the other by the study of a definite example... » 

This book affirms the reality of spirit and the reality of matter and tries to determine the relation of the one to the other by the study of a definite example that of memory. It is then frankly dualistic. But on the other hand it deals with body and mind in such a way as we hope to lessen greatly if not to overcome the theoretical difficulties which have always beset dualism and which cause it though suggested by the immediate verdict of consciousness and adopted by common sense to be held in small honor among philosophers. «