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phenomena] world destroys itself. To assume the 

 reality of so-called material particles is to lay the 

 foundation of an argument which surely leads to 

 the conclusion that the whole world of my con- 

 sciousness is produced by and consists in motions 

 in that certain small group of these same molecules 

 which is assumed to make up my brain. The 

 solution is only reached when we discover that 

 the error lies in forgetting that the Reality which 

 is the seat of my Presentment is itself unperceived, 

 and that what I commonly call a body and a brain 

 are the phenomena occurring in my Presentment, 

 and which I associate with such real substratum. 

 The real substratum of my Presentment is a part of 

 the energetic Universe, which is constantly under- 

 going transmutations. Wherever such Energy is 

 united, in an organism, with consciousness these 

 transmutations, as affecting and perceived by 

 such consciousness, constitute its Presentment or 

 sense-experience ; and aided by the constructive 

 activity of thought expand, as it were, subjectively 

 into a whole world of experience, as the electric 

 current vibrating darkly along the narrow confines 

 of the wire suddenly expands at the carbon 

 point into the luminous undulations which light a 

 city. 



We admit, therefore, to the full the actuality 



