Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — HAS DOUBLE PERSONALITY [ARTICLE]

HAS DOUBLE PERSONALITY

Prof. Ralph •. Perry of Harvard Thinks Man Haa Two Forme of Coneetouenese—Hia Theory. Cambridge, Mass.—Prof. Ralph B. Perry of the division of philosophy of Harvard university Is of the opinion that every man has two forms of consciousness and says: "The lower being primitive, uncivilised. half submerged, while the other rising above It as a bright light out of a fog, a dominating, controllable, intellectual consciousness. In certain individuals there may be two of these dominant consciousnesses arising out of the same sub-stratum of unconscious consciousness. When such is the case, the subject may be said to have a double personality. “We may say that the lower stratum of consciousness Is that portion of the brain which Is at .work without our being fully a warp of it. It Is the

part of the consciousness which tells us of certain things which are going on about us, but which our attention Is not at the moment centered upon. Fbr instance. I may In a certain way be aware of the noise comes into me through the window from across the street, although merely In a hazy way I am not really acutely conscious of this noise until my attention is directly centered upon it. “It is this submerged consciousness, this ability to note what It going on without actually bringing tbe awareness to the direct scrutiny of the brain which Is called the lower or substratum of consciousness. "This bright sphere of consciousness Is the part of the consciousness which is active Mr the moment. My conscious consciousness is the part at work while I have my mind fixed upon one particular matter..

“Now, in certain Individuals there may not be merely one single conscious consciousness. There may be two. There may be two of the bright, luminous spheres arising out of the substratum. “When such is the case ». hare what Is called a multiple personality. Only one of these consciousnesses is at work at the same time. The one ordinarily active is the one recognised, is the personal!’** of the individual in question, the other rarely coming to the front and swaying the person’s actions, may appear to be a totally different person, having ** net traits in common with the personality which we are in the habit of associating with this particular body.”