152 TWO NEW WORLDS 



In searching for ultimate truth, we have to bring 

 our higher intellectual faculties into play. We 

 have to investigate those " laws of cognition " which 

 govern the acquisition of knowledge in general. 

 We have to concentrate ourselves in our own 

 higher selves, and watch our ordinary faculties at 

 work, just as those faculties watch our sensations, 

 and our senses in their turn watch the world. And 

 in doing so, we are gradually and inevitably drawn 

 to the conclusion that mind is everything, and 

 matter but an expression of the universal mind. 

 A table, a house, a machine is the embodiment of 

 some human mind. A stone is the embodiment 

 of some mind at present inaccessible to us, of 

 some will at present inscrutable. Matter signifies 

 existence life independent of ourselves, but subject 

 to our will under certain conditions, just as men 

 are to some extent. Motion means change or ex- 

 perience. Inertia means habit. The ether means, 

 perhaps, the all-embracing, all-connecting over- 

 soul of the universe. Radiation means, perchance, 

 the intercommunication of smaller minds. 



Here we enter upon that virgin field where, I 

 believe, the science of the future will blossom forth. 

 In entering upon it, a new perspective opens out, 

 a perspective infinitely more glorious than the 

 starry host visible to our human eyes. We breathe 

 a higher and purer air an air of freedom, of infinite 

 life and power and greatness, unfettered by the 



