COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



feeling. But this, it is quite safe to say, can never 

 be done. Free as we were, a moment ago, to 

 admit the boundless possibilities of scientific in- 

 quiry in one direction, we may here at once 

 mark the bounds beyond which, in another 

 direction, scientific inquiry cannot advance. 



For in the last resort it is subjective psy- 

 chology which must render the decisive verdict 

 as to the possibility of identifying feeling with 

 motion ; and to obtain this decisive verdict 

 there is but one legitimate way. By a physical 

 analysis we must ascertain what is the primor- 

 dial element in motion, and by a psychological 

 analysis we must ascertain what is the primor- 

 dial element in feeling ; it must then be left for 

 consciousness to decide whether these two pri- 

 mordial elements are or are not in such wise 

 like each other that the one may be substituted 

 for the other indiflferently ; and from this ver- 

 dict there can, in the nature of the case, be no 

 appeal. Now it would be very rash to suppose 

 that we have as yet arrived at a knowledge of 

 the primordial unit, either of motion or of feel- 

 ing : still we have made an approximation suf- 

 ficient for the purposes of the present argument. 

 Our analysis has progressed so far as to enable 

 us to foresee the verdict, and to rest assured 

 that further analysis will reiterate and not re- 

 verse it. In the chapter on the Composition of 

 Mind, we saw that " the physical action which 

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