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energetic transmutations proceeding in my organism, 

 I explain the universality of the experience of all 

 intelligent agents. In my own case, by that union 

 of consciousness with physical energy which accom- 

 panies the manifestation of life, I am immediately 

 related with that portion of the energetic system 

 which is the real substratum of my organism, and 

 am made conscious of the series of transmutations 

 occurring at that particular point in it which is 

 represented by my sensory system. In the case of 

 others, from certain of the transmutations occurring 

 in my Presentment, I am led to infer the existence 

 of other similar microcosmic systems in the energetic 

 macrocosm of the physical universe. 



This is all very well as a theory, but if all I know is 

 the series of transmutations occurring in the portion 

 of the system of Energy related directly to my in- 

 telligence, how did I ever learn to infer from these 

 transmutations the existence of that Energy under- 

 lying them, and still more of the whole energetic 

 system extending far beyond my organism ? How 

 do I deduce from transmutations proceeding in the 

 portion of the energetic system which constitutes 

 the real substratum of my organism the existence, 

 not only of that substratum itself, but of other portions 

 of the system similarly related to other intelligences, 

 and of the energetic system as a whole ? How do 



