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3. The evidence for the existence of matter is found in certain 
modifications experienc y our consciousness, especially in the 
‘sensations of extension and resistance. 
. Since consciousness does not exist apart from the motion of 
matter, we regard it as a property of the matter in motion, that is, 
as a property of energy. 
II, FACTA. 
1. The gross activity of consciousness is immediately conditioned 
by matter. 
2. In certain of its thought-forms consciousness is not imme- 
diately conditioned by matter, but only by its past experience of 
matter. 
_3. The forms of consciousness mentioned under (2) control the 
direction of energy, and hence the use of matter. 
_ 4. The proof of (3) is seen in the designed movements of animals 
in which they direct a current of energy in order to produce a 
result more or less exactly adapted to satisfy the conditions 
“demanded by a sensation. 
5. As soon as a designed movement has been fully acquired, 
that is, so soon as the animal mechanism necessary for its produc- 
tion has been created, it is performed without consciousness of effort, 
and may be performed unconsciously, or even in a state of general 
unconsciousness, Therefore designed automatic acts originated in 
- consciousness, 
6. Evolution of organic types is the resultant of the interaction 
of subject and object, or the living organism and its environment. 
7. The function of the organism in evolution is to produce vari- 
-ations in its structure as an effect of its motions. 
8. The function of the environment in evolution is to impress or 
destroy the organism, or to restrain, permit or encourage its use; 
that is, to exercise natural selection. ) 
9. The effect of this interaction, where the movements of the 
“Organism are stimulated, is to produce specialized structures and 
t out of generalized ones. Where the action of the organism 
18 not stimulated, the result is to produce degenerate types. _ 
40, It follows that organic evolution is the result, mediate or 
immediate, of consciousness ; that is, of the interaction of conscious. 
nergy or its residua, the organic vital energies, in interaction with 
the environment. 
I. Organic energies perform chemical syntheses and analyses, 
‘demonstrating the control of vital over chemical energy. : 
, 12. Whereas physical and chemical energies result only in 
dissipation of energy and integration of matter, the energy 
otis tion produces complication of matter for the profitable 
““irection and storage of energy. : 
