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of exercises of physical force. Energy is expended in 

 the pursuit and capture of prey. In this succession 

 of states the feeling of hunger is a necessary element. 

 The antecedent actions stand related to the subsequent 

 actions through the feeling: take away the feeling, and 

 the forth-putting of physical energy consequent upon 

 it, is taken away. The feeling is an essential part of 

 the instance. It matters nothing how the physical 

 series may be otherwise related. Without the feeling 

 the result must be entirely other than it is. 



Let us examine the fact more closely. A physical 

 change a manifestation of the absolute cause in a 

 material mode is accompanied by feeling, which is a 

 manifestation of the absolute cause in a mode not 

 material. The physical process plus the feeling deter- 

 mines the next physical process, which is again 

 accompanied by a second manifestation of the un- 

 knowable in feeling. The second physical process plus 

 the second feeling determines the next physical 

 process, and so on continually the manifestation in 

 feeling being as necessary to each subsequent deter- 

 mination as the physical process. If, then, the 

 evolutionist is unable to constitute the feeling an 

 integral part of the manifestations cohering by dis- 

 coverable physical law, but is driven to refer it to 

 the unknowable, organic evolution is condemned as 

 a one-sided and inadequate hypothesis, incompetent 

 to account for the whole fact; for it proposes to 

 formulate the law of all living things in their origin 



