1 82 Traces of Unity in the 



wherever the mind was acted upon originally, no matter 

 where. For him, it will be easy to dispense with the 

 notion that the sensorium is a record office for memory, 

 for, by reason of its ubiquitousness, the mind can have 

 no difficulty in finding access to the original documents 

 outside the sensorium. For him, once to know anything 

 is always to be in the same case, and the act of recogni- 

 tion ceases to be separable from the act of cognition. 

 Upon this view a thing once apprehended mentally from 

 that time forth becomes part and parcel of the being 

 who apprehends it, and it must be recognized if again 

 brought under notice in any way without any question 

 being raised as to its identity. Once held it is never let 

 go : and by ever holding it the mind is satisfied as to 

 its identity. Nor is this conclusion invalidated when 

 the thoughts are turned from the mind to the body of 

 which the senses take cognizance. For what is the actual 

 case then ? It is that this very body is inseparably bound 

 to other bodies, to the universe at large, by the force of 

 gravity. It is as will one day be better known, I trust 

 that it is not less firmly held in this position by " the 

 electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound." It is 

 that it cannot claim more than a momentary tenure 

 even in the matter of which it is made, for, in fact, this 

 matter is in a state of perpetual flux. And thus even 

 body may be generalized until it ceases to be a serious 

 obstacle to the adoption of that generalization of mind 

 which arises naturally out of the premises a view 

 according to which mind is to be looked upon, not as 

 the result of cerebration, or of any other similar action, 

 but as something which is common to nature gene- 

 rally as something of which the substance, without 

 any confusion as to identity, is one with that of the 

 Divine Being who upholds nature. 



