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can get hold of ; it is vain to deny this. Here then we have a certain 
groundwork of fact on which to build, and I think the writer of the paper 
has shown a proper appreciation of it when he endeavours to point out 
that our conception of force in the physical universe is nothing more nor 
less than a simple derivation from our own self-conscious action. Here we 
have a plain and obvious fact, which practical philosophy is bound to deal 
with as much as it deals with any other fact in nature. This being so, 
the fact leads up ultimately, to a proof of the being of a personal God. 
With regard to the definition which occurs in this paper of the “ self-con- 
scious Ego,” I have my doubts about its being so good a one as might be 
given. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
