Larger context for LACK in Corpus USbrown_UKbncw/US_brown.txt
At least I should like them to know that I know these discounts are being made.
Let me then (and in public) glance into the mirror.
I have known some men and women who said that the selves they are told about or even remember seem utter strangers to them now; that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
For my part I find it difficult to conceive such a state of affairs.
I have changed and I have reversed opinions; but I am so aware of an uninterrupted continuity of the persona or ego that I see only as absurd the tendency of some psychologists from Heraclitus to Pirandello and Proust to regard consciousness as no more than a flux amid which nothing remains unchanged.
So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Fundamental values, temperament and the way in which one approaches a conviction change less, of course, than specific opinions.