THE EVOLUTION OF MIND 



"frankly acknowledge that you believe mind to 

 be a function of matter, and therefore that materi- 

 alism is the truth and the whole truth ? Or, since 

 you have resolved matter into a manifestation of 

 energy or power, that mind is a function of energy, 

 and therefore that energism is the truth and the 

 whole truth?" 



If we withhold all analysis and content ourselves 

 with words, it would indeed appear that to asso- 

 ciate the elements of mind with the elements of 

 matter is to commit one's self to materialism. 

 But it is assuredly not so. To assert that mind 

 and matter are correlative and complementary 

 is to assert that they are the two sides of Reality, 

 as seen by us. It is to assert the sublime truth, 

 first perceived by Spinoza, that mind and matter 

 are the warp and the woof of what the earth- 

 spirit in "Faust" calls the "living garment of 

 God." 



Indeed, if language were not essentially and 

 incoercibly materialistic, and if human thought 

 were not essentially materialistic, so that no one 

 can conceive of spirit save in materialistic terms 

 no, not though he be an idealist of the most 

 uncompromising we should see that it would be 

 exactly as accurate to describe matter as a function 

 of mind which is indeed the idealist assertion 

 as to describe mind as a function of matter, which 

 is regarded as a materialist assertion. Neither is 

 true, because no statement that attempts to ex- 

 plain the one in terms of the other can be aught 



