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transformable into the original shapes.” In complete harmony 
with the foregoing, we find Mr. C. Bray stating that “ the airs 
that man has given himself, and his assumption of superiority 
over all his brethren of the sentient creation, are a little ridicu- 
lous, viewed in this light of the persistence of force.”* If the 
following be not Pantheism, we are at a loss to know what 
Pantheism can mean : — “ We find, then, but one thing in the 
world — Force ; and what is that ? Force and Power are the same, 
and Power we cannot separate from that source of all Power, — 
from God, — Power is God. We say * the Power of God/ as 
if it could be separated from Him, or delegated ; but this is 
entirely inconceivable. The only one thing we find anywhere 
is God.” The following can scarcely be classed under any of the 
heterodox isms with which we are familiar, — it sounds startling 
in the extreme ; still, if energy persists, and motion never 
begins nor ends, it is a logical consequence, and fair statement 
of a universal fact. “ Heat and electricity are constantly passing 
off from the body ; so is mind. We influence every one and 
every thing about us, and are influenced by them. We 
'photograph our mental states on all the rooms we inhabit If 
this be true, the walls of some rooms must have strange 
pictures latent on their surfaces,— the photographs on our own, 
for example, must be of a very conflicting character, seeing how 
diverse are the mental states occasionally found here. It is 
not, however, our purpose here to expose what we think are 
fallacies in the above specimens of that which we cannot believe 
to be sound philosophy, but only to justify the introduction of 
this subject to the Society, and to show how it is that we can 
quote the words of Dr. Bence Jones as expressing our own senti- 
ments when he says, “ I hold that the clearness and breadth or 
dimness and narrowness of our ideas regarding matter and 
force must constitute a good or a bad foundation of all the 
knowledge we possess, not only in medicine, but in every other 
science.” 
2. Physical science is at present in so chaotic a state in reference 
to the nature of Force and its manifestations, and the utterances 
of physicists are so contradictory and confused, that it is difficult, 
if not impossible, to arrive at any well-defined statement of the 
general hypotheses they desire to enforce. The only possible 
course, therefore, is to examine their separate utterances regard- 
ing Force, Energy, and Motion ; expose their errors as we pro- 
ceed ; contrast these with our own belief ; and finally criticise 
the assumptions in which they mostly agree. This course may 
* “ On Force and its Mental Correlates,” p. 38. 
