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the molecular motion cannot be measured, as thought, 

 the same as reflex action in muscular motion; that 

 therefore the thinking process is a power inde- 

 pendent of this "physical pulsation." So both sides 

 are agreed upon the facts of molecular motion followed 

 by the thought. One contends that the molecular mo- 

 tion, or movement, is the thought, and the other that 

 the latter is really produced by a power that produces 

 the thought through such movement, but is independ- 

 ent of physiological control. There is no proof of such 

 independence, except the negative one, that the con- 

 version of molecular motion, into thought cannot be 

 measured in the way, that the conversion of motion 

 into heat, or into mechanical power, can be measured. 

 But this is not proof, except of the fact that no means 

 have yet been devised to measure so delicate a thing, 

 or more properly a condition, as thought. 



THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE EGO. Having thus con- 

 cluded that each human being is a Phenomenal Ego, 

 who has, in some degree, a different environment from 

 every other, it will be interesting, and perhaps profit- 

 able, to endeavor to reason out the nature of this pecu- 

 liar relationship, as a phenomenon. "The first decisive 

 step, in the analysis of the complex web of phenomena, 

 is the polarization of the data of experience, into their 

 objective, and subjective aspects. " (C. Lloyd Morgan.) 

 That is, notwithstanding the monism of phenomena, 

 the unity of all phases of psychical activity, yet in 

 order to study its nature, we must analyze its com- 

 ponents, or at first divide it into two parts. The sub- 

 jective aspect is the Ego's end of phenomena. It is the 

 morphology of the energy, that the laws of nature 

 aggregate in the individual organism. Dr. Paul Carus 

 says: "Every mind is the concentrated effect of the 



