180 HEREDITY. 



5. Matter is a form clothing a supersensible reality, 

 in itself similar to the soul. 



6. When matter acts upon soul, or is acted upon 

 by soul, it is not necessary to suppose that it acts 

 as matter through the physical forces of its external 

 sheath ; but that the supersensible basis or core of 

 matter directly acts upon and is acted upon by the 

 other supersensible reality, the soul. 



7. The will, Lotze believes, can produce move- 

 ments in matter, not without cause, but without 

 cause of the same kind, — that is, without a pre- 

 existing movement whose energy is passed on into 

 a new movement. 



8. Consciousness is not a passive concomitant of 

 the material changes in the nerves, as has recently 

 been taught in Europe and America. 



9. A difference of substratum transforms heat into 

 magnetism, or electricity into heat. 



10. If a physical energy is transmuted into a 

 spiritual energy, it is absolutely necessary to suppose 

 the presence of a peculiar subject, the soul, which by 

 its peculiar nature produces this difference on the 

 character of the phenomena. 



11. Lotze's view, therefore, is in complete harmony 

 with the doctrine of the correlation and transforma- 

 tion of forces. 



12. The birth of the soul is not the result of the 

 natural course of things, nor yet is it a creation out 

 of nothing. 



13. The substance of which it is made existed in 

 the exhaustless substance of the Absolute. 



