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they interpenetrate, and their selection depends on our deeper selves. We 

 give reasons for our ideas, but at times these reasons do not touch on 

 the real reason. The victim of suggestion gives plausible reasons for 

 acts that have been determined by the hypnotist. The psychology of 

 association is convenient and conventional, but it contents itself with 

 a superficial linking of what has taken place, and is therefore statical 

 in method. But a living and dynamic psychology would dig deeper, 

 and discover how the true self selects things as they take place, even 

 though it be true that they are linked as the laws of association have 

 asserted. 



Physical determinism rests on certain theories of matter. The 

 brain is a series of molecules or atoms, and forms a part of the larger 

 series comprising the whole world. The conservation law forbids one 

 to assume that the mind can originate a series of movements. 



But the atomic theory of matter is still at the hypothetical stage : 

 the kinetic explanation of physical facts may discard it. True, the 

 law of conservation of energy would still hold. But is not this law 

 itself based on some psychological process rather than on a genuine 

 proof ? 



There is no proof of a necessary connection between psychic and cere- 

 bral states. In a movement we find the reason for another movement, 

 but not for a conscious state. Even the connection between brain and 

 mind is proved only for superficial things and not for the will. But 

 determinism extends this to all states, and opposes common-sense, 

 which leaves the will free. The associationist view arises in this way. 

 Scientific determinism (mechanism) and psychological determinism are 

 predisposed to give over the will to a geometrical scheme of the universe, 

 in which all is theoretically calculable by some supermathematician. 

 Our sensations really do lend themselves to such plans, but not our 

 deeper psychoses. Still conservationism would claim our movements, 

 and leave us little freedom. Is this law really universal, or are living 

 beings just the exception ? 



The conservation principle applies only to what can be restored to 

 its first state, and duration escapes from this law. 



We may yet discover some new kind of energy, besides kinetic and 



