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it. Not being incorporated with its activities, 

 or linked with these as they are with one an- 

 other, consciousness cannot, as it were, run 

 through them ; and so they come to be figured 

 as unconscious — are symboUzed as having the 

 nature called material as opposed to that called 

 spiritual. While, however, it thus seems an 

 imaginable possibility that units of external 

 Force may be identical in nature with units of 

 the force known as Feeling, yet we cannot by 

 so representing them get any nearer to a com- 

 prehension of external Force. For . . . sup- 

 posing all forms of Mind to be composed of 

 homogeneous units of feeling variously aggre- 

 gated, the resolution of them into such units 

 leaves us as unable as before to think of the 

 substance of Mind as it exists in such units ; 

 and thus, even could we really figure to our- 

 selves all units of external Force as being essen- 

 tially like units of the force known as Feeling, 

 and as so constituting a universal sentiency, we 

 should be as far as ever from forming a concep- 

 tion of that which is universally sentient."^ 



I do not know where we could find anything 

 more admirable than this lucid statement, in 

 which the most subtle conclusion now within 

 the ken of the scientific speculator is reached 

 without disregard of the canons prescribed by 



^ Spencer, Principles of Psychology y\o\. i. pp. 159-161. 

 [Part II. chap. i. § 63.] 



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