Note 174 — V. OF BROUSSAIS.

Let us examine, as to this particular (moi) me, all Broussais’s variorums. In one place the me comes from only one organ—the organ of general comparison: “We owe to the organ of general comparison the distinction of our person expressed by the sign me.”—Cours de Phrén., p. 684. Further on it comes from two—the organ of comparison and the organ of causality: “The organ of causality is as necessary to the distinction of the me, and of the person, as the organ of general comparison.”—Ibid. p. 685. Next there is no organ at all: “To assign to the me a special organ appears to me to be out of the question.”—Ibid. p. 119. And then it comes from every where: “There is no special and central organ, and our perception of ourselves has for its basis the sensitive perceptions.”—Ibid. p. 119.