188 T. Lyman on Forces. 
but, if this should take place, I should be conscious that I was 
not exerting the power. Again, if, at my mere wish, a great 
rock should come to me, I should be conscious that somethi | 
else moved it, and not myself. And, if my power of will was 
so extended, that I could thereby move rocks, I should be just 
as conscious of that power as I now am of the power to move 
us answer: ‘The pha 
observed in the outer world (non-ego) correspond to the fs 
nomena of self (ego), which are produced by intellec 
sum up, if it be admitted that there is an essence, inher 
matter, which necessitates its actions, then, 1st, this 
power; and 2d, this power is intelligent; for, to sony and, 
essence was power would be to stultify our understan ~~ 
to deny this power to be intelligent, would be to ignore 
tion and to destroy science. It may be well also to 
of the fact, that most theories, savoring of materialism, f all mo 
some ultimate essence (force) which is at the bottom © deat 
nh and action, as if such essence were fundamental an if this 
factory ; but this, after all, does not help the theory, fo" a, 
essence is true matter, it moves, first itself, and pee van itself : 
ter, and; if itis a property, then this property moves ao 
and then matter. : clsife 
* For a full consideration of intellect, as shown in nature, see Essay °° : 
cation, by Louis Agassiz, : 
