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automatically have taken, and can be 

 directed so as to produce effects that would 

 not otherwise have occurred ; and this 

 without any breakage or suspension of the 

 laws of dynamics, and in full correspondence 

 with both the conservation of energy and 

 the conservation of momentum. 



That is where I part company with 

 Professor James Ward in the second volume 

 of Naturalism and Agnosticism ; with whom 

 nevertheless on many broad issues I find 

 myself in fair agreement. Those who find 

 a real antinomy between " mechanism and 

 morals M must either throw overboard the 

 possibility of interference or guidance or 

 willed action altogether, which is one 

 alternative, or must assume that the laws 

 of Physics are only approximate and untrust- 

 worthy, which is the other alternative the 

 alternative apparently favoured by Professor 

 James Ward. I wish to argue that neither 

 of these alternatives is necessary, and that 

 there is a third or middle course of pro- 

 verbial safety : all that is necessary is to 



