CONCLUSION 



IF now, at the end of our labours, we cast a backward 

 glance over the path we have travelled, we shall find 

 additional grounds for trust in an optimist interpretation 

 of the universe, and in the truth of the interpretation 

 whose main outlines we have given. 



One single hypothesis that of an essential dynamo- 

 psychism objectified in representations and passing^ by those 

 representations^ from unconsciousness to consciousness^ suffices 

 to explain everything, with no other limitations than 

 those natural to the faculties we now actually possess. 



Let us look back on what this hypothesis allows 

 of: 



In Physiology, by the demonstrated thesis of a 

 centralising and directing dynamism, it explains the 

 building up of the organism, its specific form, its functions 

 its maintenance, its repair, its embryonic changes, the 

 laws of heredity, extra-corporeal dynamic action, the 

 phenomena of exteriorisation and ideoplastic materiali- 

 sation. 



In Psychology, by demonstration of a superior 

 psychism independent of cerebral function and by 

 distinguishing the Self from states of consciousness, it 

 gives a clear interpretation of the complexities of men- 

 tality and differentiates between consciousness and 

 unconsciousness; it explains the enigmas which arise 

 from dissociations of personality, the various modes 

 of subconscious psychism, innate proclivities, crypto- 

 psychism, cryptomnesia, inspiration, genius, instinct, and 

 intuition. In interprets hypnotism, the supernormal, 

 mediumship, action from mind to mind, telepathy and 

 lucidity. It even gives a clue to neuropathic states and 



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