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of evolution ; but we can neither say wJience nor how 

 nor why. In just the same way we see to-day that 

 mind appears in connection with certain material 

 circumstances, but we cannot see how or why it is 

 so. Least of all can we say that the material cir- 

 cumstances produce mind ; on the contrary, we 

 can assert most positively that they do not. 



The proof of this rather dogmatic assertion is to 

 be found in the careful study of that very doctrine 

 of the " correlation of forces " which superficial 

 materialists have exultingly claimed as their own, 

 and which their superficial opponents have foolishly 

 conceded to them. We have been wont to hear 

 this doctrine the crowning achievement of modern 

 science decried as lending support to materialism. 

 If this were really so, we anti-materialists would 

 have a poor case, for the doctrine in question is 

 established beyond all possibility of refutation. But 

 it is not really so. On the contrary, the final and 

 irretrievable discomfiture of materialism follows as 

 a direct corollary from the discovery of the corre- 

 lation of forces. 



By the loose phrase, " correlation of forces," what 

 is strictly meant is the transformation of one kind of 

 motion into another kind. What used to be called 

 the "physical forces" such as light, heat, magnetism, 



