THE DOCTRINE OF ENERGY 91 



I get beyond my Presentment ? How pass from 

 Ideality to Existence ? 



I answer that I never could by any chance or 

 possibility have got beyond it or got any suggestion 

 of the Reality had I been merely related to my Pre- 

 sentment as a passive and percipient subject. 

 In point of fact, however, I am in relation with the 

 energetic system not merely or primarily as an In- 

 telligence percipient of the transmutations pro- 

 ceeding in it at a particular point, but also as a Will 

 initiative to some extent of such transmutations and 

 capable of influencing and directing the physical 

 process. Life necessarily involves a process of 

 energetic transmutation constantly proceeding at 

 that portion of the system of Energy which con- 

 stitutes my organism, and I am there related as Will 

 with a larger system which embraces the part in 

 which intelligence is developed. 



Fundamentally, life manifests itself in all grades 

 of the zoologic hierarchy as a union of Volition (or 

 what appears in action as Volition) with some par- 

 ticular point in the universe of physical Energy, the 

 union constituting what we call a living organism. 



Despite its profound importance to us personally 

 and to our race, we should not forget that, objectively 

 considered, the brain in man and the higher animals 

 is merely a special organ highly developed by use, 



