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pursue the question, What is Mr. X? It is not disposed 

 to admit that its elaborate structure of a physical uni- 

 verse is ''The House that Mr. X built". It looks upon 

 Mr. X — and more particularly the part of Mr. X that 

 knows — as a rather troublesome tenant who at a late 

 stage of the world's history has come to inhabit a 



Potential 



Stress m •Interval 



Matter • < • Scale 



Mr. X • 



Fig. 8 



structure which inorganic Nature has by slow evolutionary 

 progress contrived to build. And so it turns aside from 

 the avenue leading to Mr. X — and beyond — and closes 

 up its cycle leaving him out in the cold. 



From its own point of view physics is entirely jus- 

 tified. That matter in some indirect way comes within 

 the purview of Mr. X's mind is not a fact of any utility 



