226 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



Whatever is thought about, from moment to moment, 

 is an object, even if it be introspection. In every ex- 

 perience, such for example, as listening to a song, 

 there is just one element present to the listener, and 

 that is the song, not the subjective listener, as defined 

 by Descartes. When a fact, or physical thing is per- 

 ceived, consciousness consists only of the thing. But if 

 the attention should be turned from the fact, or thing, 

 to the subjective process, then the latter would be- 

 come immediaely objective. The whole process is part 

 of the natural order of the universe, the same as other 

 phenomena. 



The meaning of pragmatism is. that every phenome- 

 non should be interpreted, by the human brain, as to 

 its bearing upon the welfare of man. The truth is that 

 which works satisfactorily. This must be done by the 

 methods of science, not by dogmatism. If metaphysics 

 is appealed to, it must use the same intellectual method 

 as logic and mathematics, or the inductive process. 



The physiology and the anatomy of the body are per- 

 ceptible to sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. Touch 

 is most largely the sense of self feeling. Pleasure is 

 the harmonious touch of all function. Touch is not 

 confined to the ends of our fingers, but is an all-per- 

 vasive sense, located in some degree in every surface 

 both inside and outside; and pain, which is the alarm 

 from the outposts of the neural fortress, that an attack 

 of a destructive kind is being made, accentuates the 

 great importance of the sense of touch to the organism. 

 We are self conscious to the extent only, that self, or 

 the Ego, is objective to the receptive nerves and gang- 

 lia. Whatever parts of the body, or their functions, 

 make impressions on the senses, are objective. Almost 

 every function of the body is part of consciousness, if 



