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self-evident that it is a partial aspect of something 

 wider. 



(2) Strict causality is abandoned in the material 

 world. Our ideas of the controlling laws are in process 

 of reconstruction and it is not possible to predict what 

 kind of form they will ultimately take; but all the in- 

 dications are that strict causality has dropped out 

 permanently. This relieves the former necessity of 

 supposing that mind is subject to deterministic law or 

 alternatively that it can suspend deterministic law in the 

 material world. 



(3) Recognising that the physical world is entirely 

 abstract and without "actuality" apart from its linkage 

 to consciousness, we restore consciousness to the funda- 

 mental position instead of representing it as an in- 

 essential complication occasionally found in the midst 

 of inorganic nature at a late stage of evolutionary 

 history. 



(4) The sanction for correlating a "real" physical 

 world to certain feelings of which we are conscious does 

 not seem to differ in any essential respect from the 

 sanction for correlating a spiritual domain to another 

 side of our personality. 



It is not suggested that there is anything new in this 

 philosophy. In particular the essence of the first point 

 has been urged by many writers, and has no doubt won 

 individual assent from many scientists before the recent 

 revolutions of physical theory. But it places a somewhat 

 different complexion on the matter when this is not 

 merely a philosophic doctrine to which intellectual 

 assent might be given, but has become part of the 

 scientific attitude of the day, illustrated in detail in the 

 current scheme of physics. 



