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it (a sensation which, in default of a term more 

 specifically appropriated to it, we may call that of 

 effort)^ we have a consciousness of immediate and 

 personal causation which cannot be disputed or 

 ignored ; and when we see the same kind of an act 

 performed by another, we never hesitate in assum- 

 ing for him that consciousness which we recog- 

 nise in ourselves .... in every such change 

 [change occurring in material substance] we recog- 

 nise the action of Force. And in the only case in 

 which we are admitted into any personal know- 

 ledge of the origin of force, we find it connected 

 (possibly by intermediate links, untraceable by 

 our faculties, but yet indisputably connected) with 

 volition, and by inevitable consequence with motive^ 

 with intellect^ and with all those attributes of mind 

 in which personality consists." 

 ' The grip of the atoms is the grip of the great 

 Hand of God. Matter is not " an unintelligible 

 turbulence in an inconceivable ether," it is the 

 manifestation in force of the Universal Spirit 



" Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. 



And the round ocean, and the living air, 



And the blue sky, and in the mind of man." 

 J* 



" The ether means, perhaps," says Fourier, 



" the all-embracing, all-connecting soul of the 



XJniverse." 



