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mind by " keeping the door of his thoughts." He 

 can, and he often does, refuse the thing he sees, 

 and hold by another thing which he cannot see. 

 He may, and he often does choose the Invisible in 

 preference to the Visible. He may, and he often 

 does, walk by Faith and not by Sight. It is true 

 that in doing this he must be impelled by some- 

 thing which is itself only another motive, and so 

 it is true that our Wills can never be free from 

 motives, and in this sense can never be free 

 from " Law." But this is only saying that we 

 can never be free from the relations pre-estab- 

 lished between the structure of our minds, and 

 the system of things in which they are formed to 

 move. From these it is true, indeed, that we 

 never can be free. But as a matter of fact, we 

 know that these relations do not involve com- 

 pulsion. It is from compulsion that our Wills 

 are free, and from nothing else ; and for this free- 

 dom we have the only evidence we can ever have 

 for any ultimate truth respecting the powers of 

 Mind — the evidence of Consciousness — that is, the 

 evidence of observation turned in upon ourselves. 

 The discussions of many centuries seem to 



