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other nerve-motions. Nowhere is there such a 

 thing as the metamorphosis of motion into feeling 

 or of feeling into motion. 



Of course I do not mean that the circuit, as thus 

 described, has ever been experimentally traced, or 

 that it can be experimentally traced. What I 

 mean is that, if the law of the " correlation of 

 forces " is to be applied at all to the physical pro- 

 cesses which go on within the living organism, we 

 are of necessity bound to render our whole ac- 

 count in terms of motion that can be quanti- 

 tatively measured. Once admit into the circuit 

 of metamorphosis some element such as feel- 

 ing that does not allow of quantitative meas- 

 urement, and the correlation can no longer be es- 

 tablished ; we are landed at once in absurdity and 

 contradiction. So far as the correlation of forces 

 has anything to do with it, the entire circle of 

 transmutation, from the lowest physico-chemical 

 motion all the way up to the highest nerve-motion 

 and all the way down again to the lowest physico- 

 chemical motion, must be described in physical 

 terms, and no account whatever can be taken of 

 any such thing as feeling or consciousness. 



On such grounds as these I maintain that feel- 

 ing is not a product of nerve-motion in anything 

 like the sense that light is sometimes a product 



