So radical is the distinction that the student of the one branch of human enquiry has some difficulty in understanding what the votary of the other is driving at.

For the student of science, seeking to give some systematic statement of the natural history of experience self-consciousness, as a mode of that experience, is the terminus ad quern to which, or towards which, the developmental process leads up.

For the votary of metaphysics, seeking to elucidate the ultimate ground of experience, self-consciousness is the tenninus a quo from which he starts forth on his quest.

Thus T.

Green says 1 that self-consciousness is " at its beginning formally or potentially or implicity all that it becomes actually or explicitly in developed knowledge.