cularized terms; and, since one of the
duties of the science of religions is to keep religion in connection
with the rest of science, we shall do well to seek first of all a way
of describing the "more," which psychologists may also recognize as
real. The subconscious self is nowadays a well-accredited
psychological entity; and I believe that in it we have exactly the
mediating term required. Apart from all religious considerations,
there is actually and literally more life in our total soul than we are
at any time aware of. The exploration of the transmarginal field has
hardly yet been seriously undertaken, but what Mr. Myers said in 1892
in his essay on the Subliminal Consciousness[354] is as true as when it
was first written: "Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical
entity far more extensive than he knows--an individuality which can
never express itself completely through any corporeal manifestation.
The Self manifests through the organism; but there is always some part
of the Self unmanifested; and always, as it seems, some power of
organic expression in abeyance or reserve."[355] Much of the content
of this larger background against which our conscious being stands out
in relief is insignificant. Imperfect memories, silly jingles,
inhibitive timidities, "dissolutive" phenomena of various sorts, as
Myers calls them, enters into it for a large part. But in it many of
the performances of genius seem also to have their origin; and in our
study of conversion, of mystical experiences, and of prayer, we have
seen how striking a part invasions from this region play in the
religious life.

[354] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. vii. p.
305. For a full statement of Mr. Myers's views, I may refer to his
posthumous work, "Human Personality in the Light of Recent Research,"
which is already announced by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. as being
in press. Mr. Myers for the first time proposed as a general
psychological problem the exploration of the subliminal region of
consciousness throughout its whole extent, and made the first
methodical steps in its topography by treating as a natural series a
mass of subliminal facts hitherto considered only as curious isolated
facts and subjecting them to a systematized nomenclature. How
important this exploration will prove, future work upon the path which
Myers has opened can alone show. compare my paper: "Frederic Myers's
services to Psychology,"