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does not contain these. But the Real Thing 

 postulated by Physics is but one aspect of the 

 whole, and may be, must be, merged in a higher 

 Reality of which phenomena, on the one hand, 

 and Thought, Conation, Feeling on the other, 

 are the appearances. That involves a further 

 advance, the attainment of a higher degree of 

 Truth which would bridge the Dualism of 

 Thought and Existence, of Self and Not-self, of 

 Spirit and Nature, and whilst, on the one hand, 

 such Reality must fundamentally be a-logical, on 

 the other hand Energy may owe its energy to 

 Spirit. 



In the dualism which we must, in experience, 

 recognise, we notice one fundamental distinction : 

 quantification, measurability, appear the attributes 

 of the physical ; qualit} 7 , ideality, of the spiritual. 

 The apprehension, therefore, of the doctrine of 

 Energy should accomplish in clarity and security 

 the abolition of the intolerable contradictions 

 which have hitherto involved the search for Reality 

 amid its appearances. We think it suggests the 

 most satisfying explanation of the distinction which 

 separates, and the principle which relates Ideality 

 and Externality, and should obviate the almost 

 childish efforts of transcendentalists to expound 

 the relation of the Mind to a body which is involved 



