120 THE DOCTRINE OP ENERGY 



We maintain, therefore, that the presentation of 

 sense, the continuum or manifold, or what you will, 

 consists in the transmutations of a real substance 

 itself unextended and unperceived ; that the laws 

 of these transmutations are what constitute the 

 geometric all-containing Space ; that at a point in 

 this real energetic system organically related to the 

 intelligent self, the transmutations occurring there 

 constitute the individual's sensible experience ; 

 that his mind, by also actively influencing the 

 system at that point, can stimulate the train of 

 transmutations which constitute his world of ideas ; 

 that the mind can discover itself as Will influencing 

 transmutations in the organism which are trans- 

 mitted through a wider, larger portion of the 

 system ; and can recognise the transmutations at 

 the related point as influenced sometimes by its 

 own Volition and sometimes by other agents. We 

 seek to bring the added light of scientific theory to 

 reconcile the conflict between the law and the fact, 

 between the objects of reflection and the objects of 

 sense, between the world of thought and the world 

 of phenomena, the problem which Plato raised and 

 which has since been the central problem of Meta- 

 physics. In doing so we present a doctrine which 

 not only maintains the truth of the Ideal, and the 

 actuality of the phenomenal, and the relative reality 



