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body moves. No power, no energy is required to deflect 

 a bullet from its path, provided the deflecting force acts 

 always at right angles to that path "} 



The author then applies this to man's free will : " The 

 will would add nothing sensible to nor take anything 

 sensible from the energy of the universe". 



Similarly Directivity may be present everywhere in the 

 organic world, but neither exert nor neutralise any force. 



^ North British Review, March, 1868. 



