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course, be so slow as to be practically unobserv- 

 able. For one second of our time becomes 10 22 

 seconds, or some 300 billion years in the time- 

 scale of the higher world, and even the vast time 

 required for the completion of the "invasion" now 

 proceeding (say 20 billion years) is but a small 

 fraction of a second in supra-time. In order to 

 judge whether any of the motions actually observed 

 among the stars can be equated with motions of 

 atoms in a cell, we shall require some further 

 information both concerning the actual configura- 

 tion of atoms in a cell and concerning the con- 

 ditions of life in the supra- world. Both these 

 quests lie on the extreme borders of the territory 

 surveyed by our present faculties ; but that circum- 

 stance, while increasing the difficulty of such inquiry, 

 also enhances its interest and importance. 



Personally, I do not share the Haeckelian, 

 monistic, or materialistic view. I prefer to look 

 upon material phenomena as symbols of mental 

 phenomena. Where there is motion there is 

 thought. Where there is matter there is exist- 

 ence, conscious or sub-conscious. If at any time 

 we succeed in accurately determining the con- 

 figuration and motion of atoms in the huma.i brain, 

 shall have an opportunity of interpreting the 

 aspect of the heavens in terms of thought, of read- 

 ing the thoughts of the world-soul, so to speak. 

 But the human brain is, after all, only a very small 



