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I may never see the hand that plays the remote key, but I cannot fail to believe in its existence, nor in the independent, intelligent character of the force that presides there. I know not how the key is touched by which the self-poised, nervous forces of the brain are set in motion; but in the product wrought out, I do see unmistakably the evidence of such initiation, guidance, arrest. The continuity and equality of the forces in the nervous circuit, if fully established, do not weaken or embarrass the conviction. They simply leave us where they found us, ignorant of the way in which the mind employs the current of material forces; these still yield the clearest evidence of being at some point of their circuit intersected by another and higher circle of influences. To say that the only force which can modify physical forces must itself be a physical force, betraying its presence among them as a new, additive power, is not merely to affirm what we do not know, but is to make the assertion that the intelligence of the products momentarily evolved by these nervous centres does not indicate a like quality in the ultimate agency, an assertion in flat contradiction of the principles of reasoning on which we habitually proceed.

How little this form of philosophy can accomplish is evident from the fact, that it itself must admit, that some kinds of matter are intelligent, self-conscious, spontaneous, and others are not. Thus having laboriously swallowed up mind in matter, it is compelled to re-include under matter, distinctions in every way as perplexing and inscrutable as those displaced. The facts remain, and either matter is self-conscious, or that which is self-conscious is mind. "Words, rather than ideas, are thus offered as explanations in this deceptive resolution of two distinct elements into one. If an adversary of this theory chooses to add the farther affirmation that this self-conscious matter is also