1070 The Relations of Mind and Matter. [ November, 
enter into relations which might possibly exist in outer nature, 
but which have never existed. Thus the mind erects an ideal 
world of its own, which it has the power partly to reproduce ex- 
ternally.. This power of ideal formation is practically unlimited. 
The world within to some extent cuts loose from the world with- 
out, grows beyond immediate dependence upon it, reproduces the 
possible as well as the actual, becomes a self-centered and special- 
ized compound of energies, and reacts as a modifying agent on 
that external world which has so long and so powerfully acted 
upon it. | 
As already said, the mind as a developed organism is not, like 
the remainder of the body structure, transmitted to offspring as 
a constituent feature of the germ. It must grow up in each indi- 
vidual anew. The most fully developed cerebrum has no power 
in itself to unfold the mind beyond its embryo stage, the seed of 
psychic existence which is derived from a long line of ancestors. 
‘The fundamental psychic conditions of our ancestors persist in 
our minds, not as experiences, but as strongly influencing tenden- 
cies. We cannot relegate these innate tendencies to any personal 
experiences, but they have the force of a large body of expe- 
riences. They form the fundamental state of ‘our mental or- 
ganism, over which are laid all its more individual states. They 
are a collocation of tendencies, inclinations, attributes, emotional 
strains, &c., which compose the original stuff of the psychic germ, 
the framework upon which all its later material is molded. From 
this original strain and the variations produced in itby subsequent 
experiences, proceeds our mental character, which is thus a com- 
bination of heredity and experience. Our own course of thought 
adds nothing to it, but the shades of change in mental character 
‘which are produced during our life may be transmitted to our 
offspring, and thus evolution take place in the hereditary basis of 
mind. This mental character forms our great moving power. 
It may occasionally be overcome by vigorously concentrated 
thoughts, yet it exercises control over the action’ of nearly all 
‘our mental motive powers, and forms the great restraining agent 
_ Of the mind, the concentrated wisdom of a thousand generations: 
-But for it our actions might be very erratic, without a rudder to 
_ guide the movements of our headstrong and vagrant thoughts. 5 
_ Judgment is not a passive, but an active quality. It is the 
name we give to the concentered vigor of all the thoughts active 
