604 DISCUSSION ON THE 
as viewed by the new physics is more like a great thought than a great 
machine ? This seems to go far beyond the metrical characters of the 
world. If physics were confined simply and solely to the metrical aspects 
of the world, then how can Sir A. Eddington himself find intimations of 
freewill in the law of indeterminacy ? Truth is a whole, and the truth 
of physics will be found to link on and to be but part of that larger truth 
which is the nature and the character of the universe. 
When we speak of the evolution of the cosmos we are faced with a 
series of questions in regard to the ultimate physical constituents of the 
world and their interplay, the routes they follow, the structures they form, 
and the resulting characters, size, mass and properties of the universe as 
a whole. These are problems for physics. But we find that that 
evolution also comprises the emergence of life and mind, of the human 
soul and human personality, and a whole new world of values of all sorts. 
Truth, Beauty, Goodness and Love are as much structures of the 
evolutionary universe as the sun and the earth and the moon. But when 
we come to scrutinize the ultimate foundations of this vast superstructure 
we naturally look for the characters which would in the long run render 
such enormous developments possible. This would be in particular the 
attitude of the philosopher, with his wider outlook over the realms of 
existence. And it is for him that from this point of view the new quantum 
physics has a peculiar fascination. For he finds that the physicists, work- 
ing merely with their own tools and their own incomparable technique, 
and looking for no more than the metrical units which subtend this 
universe, have indeed, like the man who looked for asses and found a 
king, found much more than they have looked for. The units they have 
discovered will constitute not only a world of physics but, im the end 
and at far removes, also a world of life and spirit. 
For these units, particularly the electron and the quantum, have an 
almost metaphysical aspect; they are physics infected with thought ; 
they are not in space-time, they behave as wholes, they are indeterminate 
in their behaviour, so that the law of chance rather than the ordinary 
casual law applies to them. Of course, it is possible that this ambiguous 
character is due to infection from the mind of the researcher, as if the 
mental instrument of research has affected the result. But it is far more 
likely that in this dual character of the physical units we reach an ultimate 
basic fact, that we transcend the mind-matter distinction and reach the 
bedrock where no such differentiation has yet arisen. Thus it comes that 
the ultimate units are not purely physical or material, but poimt to an 
undifferentiated primitive world matrix, which includes both the physical 
and the thought characters of the world. 
When from these units we start our process of world building, we find 
at first what is apparently merely a physical universe. But gradually 
the suppressed vital and mental elements, inherent in the universe from 
the start, begin to emerge. Cosmic evolution is thus found to include 
organic evolution, and this again gives rise to the evolution of spirit, of 
social and spiritual values, which form our own human phase of this 
cosmic process. 
The origin of hfe from matter, of mind and personality from both, 
has always seemed an unresolvable mystery. The philosophy of 
