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unconscious personal knowledge acquired during
life; the greater part of which is entirely unconscious,
 while the upper part of it would be
mixed up with the memories of conscious experience.
 - This dim middle place is the magazine
of our common sense; it is the garden where
our ideals grow, and its spontaneous fruiting is
genius,
We must not be deceived by the simplicity of
such a diagram. Its use is to give definition to
the vague terms that we are driven to use in
talking of the functions of the Mind. And I
think it is of no use to talk of the Mind and of its
education unless we recognize how large and
trustworthy a portion of it lies in this intermediate
 state between the animal Instincts and the
conscious Reason.
Orthodox philosophy dislikes, and even repudiates,
 the term subconscious Mind, or
unconscious Mind. It urges that the word
Mind presupposes self-consciousness. But think
what really happens, and how it is unconsciously
and not consciously that each man’s Mind grows
to be what it is. A man is born with certain