It is a reproach commonly leveled against meta-
physics that the problems it deals with are immeas-
urably remote from the life of man. To their re-
moteness from life is usually attributed both their
apparent insolubility and their alleged lack of real
importance. Plainly, therefore, the question of their
importance and of the possibility of their solution
would take on a very different aspect, even to the
popular mind, if it could be shown that one of the
most crucial and fundamental of all metaphysical
problems is to be found not in the starry heavens
nor in the distant æons of unimaginable time, but
centering round a process that is going on within the
psychophysical organism of each one of us at every
moment of his waking life. That such is the actual
situation is my firm belief,--a conviction that grows

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