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EVERYMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY THE NOULEN'S LIFE

VI THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS '

processes.

(BY FATHER G. BYRNE, SIJ,), "

In the type of Psychology with our various mental states, simul- which we are occupying ourselves, taneous and successive, continuous at present, it will be seen that the

or discrete, present and past, like subject-matter is consciousness. In

or unlike, are all apprehended as fact same paychologists define Pay- combined and centred in that one chology to be the science of conscious indivisible point which we call self. The word consciousness It is this indivisible unity which does not seem to present any special rendera possible comparison, juug- difficulty to us, until the philosopherment, rangoning, and recognition of comes along and asks us: npw, idontity between the present and what exactly is consciousness, "If the past. It is this same unity we have dabbled a little in these which gives a meaning to expecta matters we may think of William tion." James's comparison, that it is like

What is ConscioUSZEKS.

IN PRISON

Clean Cells and Good Food

RUMOURS DENIED

(Mr. Manuel Vueto Revilla, For merly Editor of the Pan Ariotic Feekly has written the following account of the way in which Mr. and Mrs. Noulens are serving their sentence at Kiangsu Prison.)

In view of the allegations by the Chinese Civil Rights League charg ing the Chinese authorities with the most cruel and inhuman treatment of Chinese political prisoners, an account of how Paul Ruegg (or Nou- flowing stream. But our philoso pher will not let us rest there; he What, then, in its ultimate lens) and his wife are serving their will want to know what is the analysis in Consciousness? It reads life sentence in the Kiangsu First streats and bow is ity flowing? 1

A meaning to our past life, it Provincial Prison may be of inter- cannot quarrel with him, for when ripples with joy or darkens with est to the readers, the more sa be- and it cause of the various political issues! I begin to reflect on consciousness I sadness in the present, readily distinguish two ideas-the builds our, fancy castles in the air it has raised. The writer had the unity of consciousness and the of the future. To answer the ques privilege of seeing this prison in continuity of consciousness, They tion we must appeal to two im- the company of the courteous and are quite distinct. The unity of portant concepts among the philo affable Governor, Mr. Chuan Chi consciousness reveals me to myself zophers; the concepts of substance Niu, and of Mr. C. L. Yang, of as persevering one and the same in and accident. A substance is a the Ministry of Justice. There had the midst of all the ups and downs being which subsists in itself, or bean, lots of talk of red tape but of life. It makes me fully alive to has an independent existence, as hardly had I applied for permis sion to interview Paul Noulens the fact that the "I" who spoke for instance all the ordinary things when I was brought within the con- unkindly, yesterday is the identical with which we are familiar silver, "I" who to-day repents of his un. geld, water, animal, mao; as acor- fines of the Kiangau First Provin cial Prison. The first thing which kindness. The continuity of content, on the contrary, has not got strack me about this was the clean- sciousness seems to suggest that my an independent existence, it cannot past conscious life has been an un- exist apart from some substance, liness of the entire place. The broken whole without a gap. Of to which is clings, as it were, for faces of the prisoners did not re- course the content of consciousness its very being, thus colour cannot real any manifestation of dissatis is constantly altering but, with the flit about by itself, it must be faction nor any stifled feeling of changing element, so much remains found in something, a substance, agony resulting from maltreatment. the same that there seems to be no which is coloured; taste must be Everyone with one or two excep tions, was in excellent health. Faul interruption, the parts of conscious found in something which is tasty. Noulens himself looked as if he had ness do not seem to be separated The accident is a modification of an in his own home, hale and from one another as one musical substance: it may be of a note is separated from another by passing nature like the ripples of an interval of silence. It is for this movement which pass along a bit of India-rubber which is stratched, reason that it has been compared to

or it may seem to be more abiding. A stream.

as the colour of the rose or of the picture. Now consciousness is of this nature. It is not something that has an independent existence in itself: it is something that king Government. moves; it is an action, modifying presence of the prison Governor and the abiding self, as the ripples Mr. Yang who understood English, modify the India-rubber. If the be lambasted the men running the British when, England, according to piece of India-rubber were a livresent goverment for being pro- ing, mental being, it would be con- Noulens, and Japan are both im scious now of short ripples, now lar ripples, at another of irregu lar. On investigation we noticy that consciousness manifests itself only in organisms with a nervous system, similar to ours. Plants which have no fervaus gystem be tray no signs of a life skin to our conscious life, The philosopher concludes that physics and chemis try are not sufficient to explain a conscious organism. There must be something quite distinct from the organism; there must be a princi- ple of life for the organism, and consciousness is an activity of this vital principle.

Gaps in Consciousness.

"We must not, however, "-(to quote Dr. Misher's Psychology, & wark which may be commended to any who would seriously study the subject)-be misled by this figurative language into forgetting that con- sciouance is not really continuous.

very

hearty and immaculately dressed in his own foreign clothes. He did not seem to have changed a bit. In fact, his enthusiasm for the doctrines he tried to preach in this country was intensified by his im- pleasant words to say of the Nan prisonment. He had everything but In the very

memberment of China.

Paul Noulens and his wifo are the treatad more like guests of Government than as life-prisoners. Each has a separate, clean, and spacious room, with plenty of fresh air and light. Paul Noulens has an iron bed provided with a spring. mattress, and all the trappings of single bed, and fit for any fasti- dioue white man's head. He has

At least once in every twenty-four of long ones, at one time of regu perialist nations bent on the dis- hours there is chasm. Our mental life is made up, as a whole, of parta separated as the successive tunes of an orchestra by long intervals of silence. It is no more. a continuous stream of consciousness than a year is a continuous stream of daylight, Further, even in our conscious life, the most important factor both of ite intellectural development and its moral, worth lies not in the con- finity of conscious states; but in the real, indivisible unity which binds the series of processes into an individual self. By this unity of „sonacióntanteax' we mean the fact that

WEDDING AT SWATOW

MR. E. POLVERINO AND MISS NONA GAKORFF

(From Our Own Correspondent)

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COMMUNISM IN SZECHUEN PROVINCE

REPORTS FROM CHINESE

BOURCES

stove to beat his mom, a desk and a chair where he reads and writes Noulons is a voracious read. er; the writer saw a big pile of booka stacked in one corner of his rcom-a leather suitcase and a hot water bottle. He is not required to wear prison clothes. He wears bis own He and his wife do no- thing. Sometimes Noulens goes to the prison printing shop where he helps to fold the printed sheets of a magazine or book. They get good meals, not the swell dishes which one could get at the Cathay or the Astor House of course, but excel- Peiping, Feb. 8-According to lent enough for people doing a little private advices from Chungking atretch in jail. While China's own the town of Suiting in North Sze sons and daughters, accused of less chuen has been occupied by Com serious crimes, are said to be rot- munist-bandits under Kwang Chi ting from "cold and dampness" in Hsuan and Hau Bhang Chien, who other, more primitive, jails, in recently fed from Hdhan into crowded, unsanitary, dark cells. in Shenai. General Liu Chen, Hou, the First Kiangsu Prison in Nas former military governor of Sze king the foreign couple who are chun and who was stationed with condemned to a life sentence "for troops at. Buiting, retreated before subversive activities against the the advancing communista. *** State, are living life Chungking, Feb. The Com of ease, happy that they may soon altinist menace in Szechuan growse pardoned and be free to tread more serious daily. General. Tien the streets of Chinese cities again. Chung Yao has sent another envoy in the interest of the theories to here to appeal to General Lin which they seem to have dedicated Hsiang for reinforcement with their lives. The bride looked very charming which to fight the invading Com in a dress of white satin trimmund | munists in the Tungchuna district. with far with slices to thatch End] "Chéngtu, Feb. 7. - Following she

carried a bouquet bruth their occupation of Tugkiang, lilies

Nankiang and Pachung the com munist forces in this province are now advancing on Chaohua and

SWATOW, Feb. 16. A pretty wedding was solemnized last Saturday at St. Joseph's Church, between Mr. E. Polvering of the Maritime Customs, son of Mr. and Mm Polverino of Chefoo, and Miss Nona Gakorff, nice of Mr. V. Lankin also of the local Customs service"?

The service was choral, the Rev. Father Vogel officiating: 10

She was given away by her uncle Mr. Lanking while Mr. and Mrs, O'Reilly acted as best man

ing and intron of honour respectively. The Jatter wore a dress of lowered georgette, SHELLAC M

The attendance at the Church was very big indeed, the number of foreign and Chinese friends and colleagues beatifying to the popu Jarity of the newly-married couple. Numerous spectators watched the beremony, for European weddings here are very few and far between. " A reception was afterwards field in the Customs Club where all pro- ceeded to offer their felicitations. The best man made witty speech toasting, the health of the bride and bridegroom and the latter suitably replied.

Wanglis small portion of the 'gürzian Torres in these districts has gone, ovel to the communists General Tien Chung Yoo bas

intend operations. Most of his to the front personally to super- troops are concentrated at Kwang yuan. Chienkno and Fioning,

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