382 SPARKS FROM A GEOLOGIST'S HAMMER. 



The inquiry does not end even here; for it remains to 

 ascertain what is the mode of origin of force from its 

 subject. What is the method by which the subject reveals 

 the attribute of force? Is forceful emanation from the 

 subject an unconscious and continuous necessity'- of its 

 being, or is it a conscious and voluntary activity? If 

 necessary, then some higher power has imposed the ne- 

 cessity, and the supposed force is an effect, instead of a 

 prime efficiency; if unconscious, then some higher intelli- 

 gence directs according to the laws of conscious thought, 

 and the supposed subject has not the attributes of the 

 force-subject; for coordination of products implies at least 

 two things consciously apprehended, both in their sepa- 

 rateness and in their relation ; unconscious intelligence 

 is a nugatory expression, for consciousness is the prime 

 moment of intelligence ; intelligential action in an uncon- 

 scious agent implies the control of a conscious intelligence. 

 If, on the contrary, forceful manifestations are effected 

 through the method of volition, then the subject which 

 constitutes the ground of all cosmical force is possessed 

 of will as well as intellect and susceptibility to motive, 

 and is consequently a personal entity, an entity thinking, 

 feeling and willing with reference to that which is object- 

 ive to itself. 



At this ultimate stadium of analytic thought, we are 

 confronted by a truth which staggers and awes us by its 

 import. Instead of finding ourselves authorized by science 

 to remand the supernatural beyond the limits of the mate- 

 rial world, we are constrained by philosophy to recognize 

 in the material world only that efficienc}^ which has been 

 designated supernatural. Natural efficiency is only the 

 dream of ignorance. All force is intelligential. The sys- 



