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other nerve-motions. Nowhere is there such a 

 thing as the metamorphosis of motion into feeling 

 or of feeling into motion. 



Of course I do not mean that the circuit, as thus 

 described, has ever been experimentally traced, or 

 that it can be experimentally traced. What I 

 mean is that, if the law of the &quot; correlation of 

 forces &quot; is to be applied at all to the physical pro 

 cesses which go on within the living organism, we 

 are of necessity bound to render our whole ac 

 count in terms of motion that can be quanti 

 tatively measured. Once admit into the circuit 

 of metamorphosis some element such as feel 

 ing that does not allow of quantitative meas 

 urement, and the correlation can no longer be es 

 tablished ; we are landed at once in absurdity and 

 contradiction. So far as the correlation of forces 

 has anything to do with it, the entire circle of 

 transmutation, from the lowest physico-chemical 

 motion all the way up to the highest nerve-motion 

 and all the way down again to the lowest physico- 

 chemical motion, must be described in physical 

 terms, and no account whatever can be taken of 

 any such thing as feeling or consciousness. 



On such grounds as these I maintain that feel 

 ing is not a product of nerve-motion in anything 

 like the sense that light is sometimes a product 



