320 THE REIGN OF LAW 



of Organisation ? In the world of Physics we know 

 that we are surrounded by movements which never 

 make themselves sensible to us — pulsations which 

 excite in our eyes no sense of light — and others 

 which excite in our ears no sense of sound, — and 

 all this for want of adjusted organs. And so it 

 would seem as if the Mind of Man were an Instru- 

 ment attuned only to a certain range of know- 

 ledge, but as if within that range it were capable 

 of finer and finer adjustments to the harmonies 

 of Truth. These cannot make themselves heard 

 where there is no organ to catch the sound. Nor 

 can that organ translate them into Thought, — into 

 that conscious apprehension of which an Idea 

 essentially consists, had it not its own pre-adjusted 

 relation to the Verities of the World. 



It must be remembered, however, in the dis- 

 cussion of such questions as to the Origin of 

 our Ideas, that there has been a great want of 

 definition in the use of terms. Are fear, and 

 love, and hatred, and anger, and jealousy, and 

 remorse, and joy, — are these "ideas," or are 

 they only conditions or powers of mind ? If 

 by Ideas we mean those imaginings which, 



