76 Luck, or Cunning ? 
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 condition 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 pro tanto 
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, 
attendant or consequent, however limited, to be the 
interaction of those states which for want of better terms 
we call mind and matter. Action may be regarded as a 
kind of middle term between mind and matter ; it is the 
throe of thought and thing, the quivering clash and union 
of body and soul; commonplace enough in practice ; 
miraculous, as violating every canon on which thought and 
reason are founded, if we theorise about it, put it under the 
microscope, and vivisect it. It is here, if anywhere, that 
body or substance is guilty of the contradiction in terms of 
combining with that which is without material substance 
and cannot, therefore, be conceived by us as passing in and 
out with matter, till the two become a body ensouled and a 
soul embodied. 
All body is more or less ensouled. As it gets farther and 
farther from ourselves, indeed, we sympathise less with 
it; nothing, we say to ourselves, can have intelligence 
unless we understand all about it—as though intelligence 
in all except ourselves meant the power of being understood 
rather than of understanding. We are intelligent, and no 
intelligence, so different from our own as to baffle our 
