128 LUCK, OR CUNNING? 



tration of the outside ■world within the limits of the 

 personality, or that it is at any rate a prophesying of, 

 and essay after, the more living phase of matter in the 

 direction of which it is tending. If approached from 

 the dynamical or living side of the underlying sub- 

 stratum, it is the beginning of the comparatively stable 

 equilibrium which we call brute matter; if from the 

 statical side, that is to say, from that of brute matter, 

 it is the beginning of that dynamical state which we 

 associate with life ; it is the last of ego and first of 

 non ego, or vice mrsd, as the case may be ; it is the 

 ground whereon the two meet and are neither wholly 

 one nor wholly the other, but a whirling mass of con- 

 tradictions such as attends all fusion. 



What property is to a man's mind or soul that his 

 body is also, only more so. The body is property carried 

 to the bitter end, or property is the body carried to the 

 bitter end, whichever the reader chooses ; the expres- 

 sion " organic wealth " is not figurative ; none other is 

 so apt and accurate; so universally, indeed, is this 

 recognised that the fact has found expression in our 

 liturgy, which bids us pray for all those who are any 

 wise afflicted " in mind, body, or estate ; " no inference, 

 therefore, can be more simple and legitimate than the 

 one in accordance with which the laws that govern the 

 development of wealth generally are supposed also to 

 govern the particular form of health and wealth which 

 comes most closely home to Us — I mean that of our 

 bodily implements or organs. What is the stomach 

 but a living sack, or purse of untanned leather, wherein 

 we keep our means of subsistence ? Food is money 



