1885.] The Relations of Mind and Matter. 1073 
tion of events to our conception of time, they are true to this . 
extent, and within this limitation we may arrive at correct con- 
ceptions of existence, 
Objects emit energies. These energies are external expressions 
of the conditions of the object emitting them. So they are acted 
upon by energies which they partly repel, and which are modified 
by their momentary connection with the object. On the other 
hand the energies which penetrate the object from outside act to 
modify its conditions. In other words, all energies exert a power 
of leverage. The energies emitted by any object on flowing into 
another forcibly impress some of their peculiar characteristics 
upon it. The receiving body is brought into a certain con- 
formity of condition with the emitting body. This leverage is 
in constant operation, and every body is seeking to change every 
other body within the range of its influence into an image of 
itself. These emitted energies vary. Some are general, like those of 
heat. Others are characteristic. The degree of leverage exerted 
depends upon the degree of special modification in the emitted 
energies. Through this assimilating influence, and the counter 
influence of opposing energies, and of innate forces, bodies are 
organized. 
But the influence produced by this leverage depends upon the 
mobility of the body acted upon. Some are rigidly centralized 
and vigorously resist change. Others readily yield. Some are 
peculiarly mobile, and may vary in condition under every impress 
of special energy from without, assuming some degree of simi- 
larity to the emitting bodies. In this mobility, or sensitiveness, 
the mental organism impresses us as far beyond any other condi- 
tion of substance in nature, and therefore as peculiarly adapted 
to respond and vary into conditions of organization in conformity 
with those of the bodies acting upon it. And its power of re- 
taining these impressions is so excessive that it is capable of 
receiving them in countless numbers, with little or no obliteration 
of those formerly received. 
But this conception of the leverage of energies upon the mind 
and its faint resistance, leads directly to the conclusion that the 
Mental organism is becoming, in an exact sense, a reproduced 
Copy of external nature. The conditions of all bodies are merely 
arrangements of matter under the influence of innate energies. 
The energy is the essential constituent of condition, the matter 
only its inessential basis. Any substance which accepts these 
