138 STONEY—UNIVERSE OF REAL EXISTENCES. [April 3, 
does exist in some instances in the autic universe; whereas it has 
nowhere any place within the domain of physical science. I am 
even under the impression that every event which has occurred in 
the real universe, every change that has taken place there, has been, 
as a matter of fact, brought about by true adequate causes ; although 
I am bound to admit that man lives too secluded from the rest of 
the universe, and with channels for communicating with it that are 
far too indirect, for me to be entitled to dogmatize and to say to 
myself or my fellow-men that I absolutely know this to beso. At 
the same time it recommends itself to my mind as intrinsically 
probable; and it is supported by direct evidence which makes it 
seem to me prodadle in a high degree— 
1. Since there are some instances in which the whole process 
of causation operating among auta can be observed ; 
2. Since no instance can be found in which observation is 
possible, and in which it does not prevail; and 
3. Since the alternative supposition appears to be improba- 
ble. The only alternative is that, while the few changes 
among auta which can be investigated are found to be due 
to adequate causes, the rest, or some of the rest, which we 
cannot investigate are uncaused. 
All men experience within themselves what is called the freedom 
of their Wills; and this may by some be regarded as presenting an 
exception to the second of the above statements. But no amount 
of introspection has enabled me to detect any exercise of my Will 
which had not been caused by some motive, z.e., by a thought 
which forms one of my group of thoughts, or else by some inher- 
ited or acquired habit ; that is, by the intervention of my synergos. 
This shows me that what I describe as the freedom of my Will does 
not exclude adequate causes. 
It is noteworthy that statistical inquiries have revealed to us the 
fact that averages taken over great numbers of the acts due to the 
free exercise of the Wills of human beings, conform to definite laws. 
This suggests that a corresponding freedom of the Will may prevail 
throughout the mighty Autos—the totality of all auta—and may, 
nevertheless, produce perceptions in egoistic minds (¢.e., in minds 
supplied by the Autos with information through organs of sense) 
of such a kind that these perceptions when synthesized into the 
objects of nature exhibit that orderly sequence of events which we 
