Will and Guidance 169 



doubt some chemical process : combination 

 or dissociation, something atomic, occurred ; 

 but what made it occur just then and in 

 that way ? 



I answer, not anything that we as yet 

 understand, but apparently the same sort of 

 pre-arrangement that determined whether the 

 stone from the cliff should fall on point A 

 or point B the same sort of process that 

 guided the pen to make legible and effective 

 writing instead of illegible and ineffective 

 scrawls the same kind of control that 

 determines when and where a trigger shall 

 be pulled so as to secure the anticipated 

 slaughter of a bird. So far as energy is 

 concerned, the explosion and the trigger- 

 pulling are the same identical operations 

 whether the aim be exact or random. It is 

 intelligence which directs ; it is physical 

 energy which is directed and controlled and 

 produces the result in time and space. 



It will be said some energy is needed to 

 pull a hair-trigger, to open the throttle-valve 

 of an engine, to press the button which 



