92 THE DOCTRINE OF ENERGY 



as the trunk is in the elephant, the middle phalanx 

 in the horse, or wings in the bird. Intelligence is 

 hardly to any extent a necessity of the vital union 

 of the Will with the energetic system. It is not 

 at all developed in the vegetal kingdom, hardly 

 at all in some branches of the animal, and 

 there may conceivably be an infinite number of 

 other " kingdoms " in which it may be either unde- 

 veloped, or very differently developed, or superseded 

 by some other manifestation by us unimaginable. 

 Its development indeed seems to be concurrent 

 with the development of a locomotive faculty a 

 striking confirmation of the theory that it is in our 

 activity that we derive the suggestions which call 

 forth the exercise of the Understanding and trans- 

 form sensation into perception. 



It is only with a comparative fraction of the 

 organism that I am related as a passively percipient 

 intelligence. I am directly or indirectly related as 

 Will, as an originative cause of activity, with a 

 larger portion of my organism, many parts of which 

 are quite distinct from the cognitive portion. Now 

 it is from my relation as Will with Energy other than 

 and beyond the energetic transmutations which con- 

 stitute my Presentment that I discover the energetic 

 system of Nature, as a real thing beyond, under- 

 lying, and by its transmutations constitutive of my 



