288 Anima Mundi. 



developable out o. any pre-existing phenomena 

 or conditions " ? That consciousness of an I 

 Myseh, 01 Personality, which asserts an anti- 

 thesis between the Man, and all that the Man 

 makes his own whence came it, if not irom that 

 Eternal Consciousness, that Divine Personality 

 Who, when He made us, made us in His Own 

 image ? 



20. Science, in the modern doctrine of the 

 Conservation of Energy, and the Convertibility of 

 Forces, insists, with increasing emphasis, that all 

 kinds of Force are but forms or manifestations 

 01 some one Central Force issuing from some one 

 Fountain-head of Power, Sir John Herschel 

 has not hesitated to say, that " it is but reason- 

 able to regard the Force of Gravitation as the 

 direct or indirect result of a Consciousness or a 

 Will existing somewhere." l But if for the 

 phenomena of the material world you must 

 have an external Will, how much more for those 

 which characterize the World of Mind ! " A 

 will that hangs by the Central Will " is in- 

 telligible : but, refuse to recognise that Central 

 Will, and then how can you account for that 

 " lord paramount," the Human Will ? 



" Two things," said Immanuel Kant, " are 

 awful to me : the starry firmament, and the 



1 "Outlines of Astronomy." Fifth Edition, p. 291. 



