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proved to be not coherent with it, and to be 

 coherent with one another.^ As, by the defini- 

 tion of them, these external activities cannot be 

 brought within the aggregate of activities distin- 

 guished as those of Mind, they must forever 

 remain to him nothing more than the unknown 

 correlatives of their effects on this aggregate ; 

 and can be thought of pnly in terms furnished 

 by this aggregate. Hence, if he regards his 

 conceptions of these activities lying beyond 

 Mind as constituting knowledge of them, he 

 is deluding himself : he is but representing these 

 activities in terms of Mind, and can never do 

 otherwise. Eventually he is obliged to admit 

 that his ideas of Matter and Motion, merely 

 symbolic of unknowable realities, are complex 

 states of consciousness built out of units of feel- 

 ing. But if, after admitting this, he persists in 

 asking whether units of feeling are of the same 

 nature as the units of force distinguished as ex- 

 ternal, or whether the units of force distinguished 

 as external are of the same nature as units of 

 feeling, — then the reply, still substantially the 

 same, is that we may go farther towards conceiv- 

 ing units of external force to be identical with 

 units of feeling than we can towards conceiving 

 units of feeling to be identical with units of ex- 

 ternal force. Clearly, if units of external force 



^ See, in this connection. First Prbiciples, pp. 143-156. 

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