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assorted forces which we know by the name of Thyroid Extract, 

 the molecular energy given in the form of this extract is capable, 

 in part at least, of bringing about the development of the com- 

 plex. No physician can possibly attribute the improvement 

 to the Matter itself : were the elements comprising the extract 

 separated from their molecular integrity and administered in 

 their proper proportions, but not in molecular combination ; 

 not only is no improvement possible then, but the patient 

 would be found in time to be suffering from iodine poisoning ! 

 It follows that this improvement is not due to the material 

 extract, but is solely due to the assorted forces present in the 

 material integrity of the molecular complex of the extract. 

 Similarly, any increase in knowledge will be essentially due to 

 the further assortment of Psychic Forces. 



We have reached a stage in the development of Knowledge 

 where Evolution, Heredity, and all other changes are being 

 referred to the hidden springs of Forces, and not to an inherent 

 part of Matter. The fallacies of the philosophy of the last 

 century, when Herbert Spencer, almost as an afterthought, 

 conceived the idea of considering the heterogeneous complication 

 of Force along with the Evolution of Matter as two separate 

 processes working towards an equilibrium eventually to be 

 realised, must necessarily give way before the greater truth : 

 that it is the Forces of Nature that are becoming more complex 

 and assorted, and it is through Matter alone that we are able to 

 sense this development. The Ultimate Equilibration imagined 

 between Force and Matter has been attributed a reality it does 

 not possess. It is seen that in the unit undergoing dissolution 

 only some of its assorted forces are dissipated ; certain overtones 

 responsible for Civilisation, Evolution, and Heredity necessarily 

 survive. The Main Cycle in the complexity of Force is still on 

 the upward grade, and whether this cycle possesses an actual 

 downward course — a trough after its crest — towards simplifi- 

 cation is open to doubt ; for in nature, as we see it to-day, we 

 do not find any evidence, other than by analogy to other 

 cycles, of this simplification. The formation of overtones 

 from Nature's rhythms seems the only hypothesis capable of 

 explaining the chief methods of Nature. The development of 

 this conception may be fruitful in its results. All material 

 development must be referred to the right entity, for it is the 

 abstract entity Force that is undergoing steady development 

 towards heterogeny, and we are only conscious of this " relative " 

 to its material counterpart, the counterpart that is more acces- 

 sible to our older and more developed senses, by which we are 

 beginning to see the fact that, throughout each successive period 

 of simplification. Force retains more and more of its hetero- 

 geneous complexities or assortments. 



