EVOLUTION THE MASTER-KEY 



actly the same number of milligrammes of phos 

 phorus are oxidized during an hour s conscious 

 ness whether of a Shakespeare or a sot who 

 will declare that those two conscious entities, even 

 though accompanied by exactly equal amounts of 

 chemical change, are equal? Burn a gramme of 

 phosphorus, in a brain or a pan, and you will always 

 obtain an invariable amount of heat. But one 

 brain will yield, meantime, the prelude to &quot; Parsi 

 fal,&quot; another the &quot;Washington Post March,&quot;, while 

 the pan yields nothing at all but the heat. The law 

 of the conservation of heat - energy is observed, 

 but to resolve mind into energy (which is, as a 

 fact, a material concept) you must demonstrate 

 that the prelude to &quot;Parsifal,&quot; Mr. Sousa s march, 

 and nothing are equal. We wish you joy of the 

 task. 



The law of the conservation of energy might be 

 stated as the law of the conservation of not-mind. 

 If it could be demonstrated to be applicable to 

 mind, the discovery would be welcomed by those 

 who seek for evidence of the persistence of the 

 individual consciousness after death; 1 but it has 

 not been so extended ; nor is there any conceivable 

 method of such extension. Meanwhile the theory 

 that not-mind is the reality which philosophy 

 seeks must be rejected. 



1 &quot;Thought, we know, dies. Shall that alone which knows 

 Be as a sword consumed before the sheath 

 By sightless lightning?&quot; &quot; AUONAIS.&quot; 

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