848 The Relations of Mind and Matter. (September, 
agent directly concerned in this development, and we can 
conceive of but one result of the agency of motion, that of 
change in the space relations of matter. The motion which 
enters the cerebral ganglion, and is retained there, cannot 
cease to exist. One of two things must happen. It may flow 
into the surrounding matter as heat, or in some other general 
and dissipating condition. Or it may become an organizing 
agent, and enter-into some substance as a permanent factor. It 
may produce a mental compound of substance analogous to the 
inorganic crystal, and like the latter unchanging in -form and in 
its internal conditions, The disorganizing energies of nature 
act upon the crystal. Heat and electricity pass through it but 
do not disintegrate it unless they become of excessive vigor. 
The same may be the case with the mental organism. This 
much we know, that the special motor energies which enter the 
body and are conveyed to the cerebrum produce those conditions 
which we call memories, and which are permanent and unchang- 
ing. If these are motor conditions they must be motions of 
organization, influences which partly overcome but which fall 
into harmonious relations with the force of attraction and con- 
densation. And it follows as a corollary that the development of 
the mental organism from its germ to its highest unfoldment 
takes place through a continued succession of these organizing 
motor influences. The intricacy of the organism steadily in- 
creases, as it is affected by motions of higher complexity, but 
every motor state produced is permanent. The existence of 
higher motor conditions does not cause obliteration of the lower 
ones, This is one of the marked characteristics of motion. In 
the circle the straight line of motion is masked, not obliterated. 
In the spiral the circle persists. In the spiral vortex all these 
inferior stages can be traced. And in the organizing motions of 
the mind all inferior stages persist as constituent parts of the 
_ superior stages. Consciousness may be directed to any of these 
motor conditions, in which case they appear as memories. But 
consciousness has no bearing upon their existence. They con- 
tinue thfough life active conditions of the mind, though they may 
seldom or never come within the sphere of consciousness. 
The preceding argument is not advanced as anything new. It 
is rapidly becoming a common belief with scientists that the 
mind has its basis in matter, and that thought is a motor affec- 
