284 Anima Mundi. 



the characteristic, but concurrent testimony of 

 Thomas Carlyle : 



" Capabilities there were in me " (says Teufelsdrockh) 

 " to give battle, in some small degree, against the great 

 Empire of Darkness : does not the very Ditcher and Delver, 

 with his spade, extinguish many a thistle and puddle ; and 

 so leave a little Order, where he found the opposite? Nay, 

 your very Daymoth has capabilities in this kind ; and 

 ever organizes something (into its own Body, if no other- 

 wise), which was before Inorganic ; and of mute dead air 

 makes living music, though only of the faintest, by hum- 

 ming. 



"How much more, one whose capabilities are spiritual; 

 who has learned, or begun learning, the grand thauma- 

 turgic art of TTttughtJ Thaurnaturgic I name it ; for 

 hitherto all Miracles have been wrought thereby, and 

 henceforth innumerable will be wrought ; whereof we, 

 even in these days, witness some. Of the Poets' and 

 Prophets' inspired Message, and how it makes and un- 

 makes whole worlds, I shall forbear mention : but cannot 

 the dullest hear Steam-engines clanking around him?" J 



What then, is the origin, and who is the 

 originator of " that subtle force which we term 

 Mind " ? 



19. Man, as defined by Professor Huxley, 2 is "a 

 conscious automaton," "endowed with free-will"; 

 and in his Essay on "The Physical Basis of 

 Life " he confesses that " our volition counts for 



1 " Sartor Resartus," chap. iv. 



3 Fortnightly Review, November, 1874, p, 577. 



