306 THE REIGN OF LAW 



fact of the dependence of Mind on a Bodily 

 organisation is a fact which contains within itself 

 all the lesser facts of Physiological discovery. 

 They are not, and they cannot be, new in kind. 

 They do not even help us to conceive how, 

 through any mechanism, the power of Thought can 

 be evolved. Still less do they give us any new 

 view of that which Thought, in itself, is. 



This connexion, therefore, between Mind and 

 Brain, although it is a universal " law " of our 

 being, is a law recognised by us only in the 

 sense in which Law is applied to "an observed 

 Order of facts." But like every other Order of 

 this kind, it implies a Force or an arrangement of 

 Forces out of which the Order comes. It implies, 

 too, that this arrangement of Forces is necessary 

 to the evolution and play of mental faculties in the 

 form in which they are possessed by us. Conse- 

 quently these faculties are seen taking their place 

 among all the other phenomena of the world. 

 They are seen to be under the Reign of Law in 

 this largest and highest sense of all — that they 

 depend upon Adjustment, and that adjustment so 

 delicate that the slightest disturbance of it de- 



