164 Life and Matter [chap. ex, 



So if life and mind and will, and curiosity 

 and mischief and folly, and greed and fraud 

 and malice, and a whole catalogue of attri- 

 butes and things not contemplated in 

 Natural Philosophy if these are known to 

 have any real existence in the larger world 

 of total experience, and if there is any 

 reason to believe that any one of them may 

 have had some influence in determining an 

 observed result, then it is foolish to exclude 

 these things from philosophic consideration, 

 on the ground that they are out of place in 

 the realm of Natural Philosophy, that they 

 are not allowed for in its scheme, and there- 

 fore cannot possibly be supposed capable of 

 exerting any effective interference, any real 

 guidance or control. 



My contention then is and in this con- 

 tention I am practically speaking for my 

 brother physicists that whereas life or mind 

 can neither generate energy nor directly 

 exert force, yet it can cause matter to exert 

 force on matter, and so can exercise guidance 

 and control : it can so prepare any scene of 



