78 LUCK, OR CUNNING? 



Does any man in continuing to live from day to day 

 or moment to moment, dp more than continue in a 

 changed body, with changed feelings, ideas, and aims, 

 so that he lives from moment to moment only in virtue 

 of a simultaneous dying from moment to moment also ? 

 Does any man in dying do more than, on a larger and 

 more complete scale, what he has been doing on a small 

 one, as the most essential factor of his life, from the day 

 that he became " he '' at all ? When the note of life 

 is struck the harmonics of death are sounded, and so, 

 again, to strike death is to arouse the infinite har- 

 monics of life that rise forthwith as incense curling 

 upwards from a censer. If in the midst of life we 

 are in death, so also in the midst of death we are in 

 life, and whether we live or whether we die, whether 

 we like it and know anything about it or no, still 

 we do it to the Lord — living always, dying always, 

 and in the Lord always, the unjust and the just alike, 

 for God is no respecter of persons. 



Consciousness and change, so far as we can watch 

 them, are as functionally interdependent as mind and 

 matter, or condition and substance, are — for the con- 

 dition of every substance may be considered as the 

 expression and outcome of its mind. Where there is 

 consciousness there is change ; where there is no change 

 there is no consciousness; may we not suspect that 

 there is no change without a jpro tanfo consciousness 

 however simple and unspecialised ? Change and 

 motion are one, so that we have substance, feeling, 

 change (or motion), as the ultimate three-in-one of our 

 thoughts, and may suspect all change, and all feeling. 



