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doubt on the freedom of tlie will, — such as by the direct evidence of 

 consciousness we know that freedom to be. This suggestion is simply 

 a repetition of the same inveterate confusion of thought which has 

 been exposed before. The question what our powers are is in no way 

 affected by the admisssou or discovery that they are all connected 

 with an apparatus. Consciousness does not tell us tiiat we stand unre- 

 lated to the system of things of which we form a part. We dream — 

 or rather, we simply rave — if we think we are free to. choose among 

 things which are not presented to our choice — or if we think that 

 choice itself can be free from motives,— or if we think that we 

 can find any motive outside tlie number of those to which by the 

 structure of our minds and of its organ we have been made accessible. 

 The only freedom of which we ai-e really conscious is freedom from 

 compulsion in choosing among things which are presented to our 

 choice, — consciousnees also attesting the fact that among those things 

 some are coincident, and some are not coincident with acknowledged 

 obligation. This, and all other direct perceptions, are not weakened 

 but confirmed by the doctrine that our minds are connected with an 

 adjusted mechanism. Because the first result of this conception is to 

 establish the evidence of consciousness when given under healthy con- 

 ditions, and when properly ascertained, as necessarily the best and the 

 nearest representation of the truth. This it does in recognizing our- 

 selves, and all the faculties we possess, to be nothing but the result 

 and index of an adjustment contrived by, and reflecting the Mind 

 Avhich is supreme in Nature. We are derived and not original. We 

 have been created, or — if any one likes the phrase better — we have 

 been "evolved;" not, however, out of nothing, nor out of confusion, 

 nor out of lies, — but out of " Nature," which is a word for the Sum of 

 all Existence, — the source of all Order and the very ground of all 

 Truth, — the Fountain in which all fullness dwells. 



Thus the doctrine which at first sight seems so terrible turns out to 

 be nothing but one intellectual aspect of the many-sided moral truth 

 which of old found expression in the Kon nobis, Domine. — ConteMrpo- 

 vary Revicxo. 



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Note on the Mamifacture of Stone Axes. By E. W. Claypole, B. 

 A. B. Sc., Antioch College. 



Some discussion has at different times been raised concerning the 

 process by which the savage tribes, who used the stone weapons now 



