A UNIVERSE OF MIND-STUFF 



inferred as corresponding in some way to them 

 and running parallel with them. . . . The dis- 

 tinction between eject and object, properly 

 grasped, forbids us to regard the eject, another 

 man's mind, as coming into the world of objects 

 in any way, or as standing in the relation of 

 cause or effect to any changes in that world. I 

 need hardly add that the facts do very strongly 

 lead us to regard our bodies as merely compli- 

 cated examples of practically universal physical 

 rules, and their motions as determined in the 

 same way as those of the sun and the sea. There 

 is no evidence which amounts to a prima facie 

 case against the dynamical uniformity of Na- 

 ture ; and I make no exception in favour of that 

 slykick force which fills existing lunatic asylums 

 and makes private houses into new ones." 



The doctrine of evolution, as applied by Mr. 

 Spencer to the study of psychical phenomena, 

 nowhere undertakes to interpret Mind as 

 evolved from Matter, but it shows a wonder- 

 fully minute and instructive parallelism between 

 the modes of evolution of the total series of ob- 

 jective facts and the total series of ejective facts. 

 Pushing the analysis, both of physical and of psy- 

 chical phenomena, to its farthest possible limits 

 with the data now at command, Mr. Spencer 

 has shown how all the phenomena constituting 

 a consciousness are compounded of elementary 

 sub-conscious feelings or "psychical shocks." 



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