314 THE REIGN OF LAW 



Association, or to Intuition, has been discussed 

 by Metaphysicians with far too little reference 

 to the organic phenomena which are so closely 

 related to the phenomena of Mind. It is not true, 

 indeed, that Psychology is subordinate to Physio- 

 logy; but it is true that these two are so intimately 

 connected, that neither is independent of the other. 

 Man is not a disembodied Spirit, but a Being whose 

 mental powers are subject to the laws of a material 

 organisation. And so it is that almost every fact 

 in Physiology has an intimate bearing on some 

 question or other in the Philosophy of Mind. No 

 better illustration could be given than one which 

 arises out of this question of the Origin of our 

 Ideas. In one of the many formulae of expression 

 to which Mr J. S. Mill has reduced the assertion 

 that Experience is the source and origin of all 

 our thoughts and actions, he is obliged to except 

 from the sweep of that assertion the voluntary 

 movements of the Body. He says, "We bring 

 about any fact, other than our own muscular con- 

 tractions, by means of some other fact which experi- 

 ence lias shown to be followed by it." * Now let us 



* Auguste Comte and Positivism, by J. S. Mill, p. 7. 



