Sherrington, with his superior knowledge of what is actually going on in a living body, is seen struggling with a paradox which in his candidness and absolute intellectual sincerity he does not try to hide away or explain away (as many others would have done, nay have done), but he almost brutally exposes it, knowing very well that this is the only way of driving any problem in science or philosophy nearer towards its solution, while by plastering it over with ‘nice’ phrases you prevent progress and make the antinomy perennial (not forever, but until someone notices your fraud).
