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Turn quae res instei, quid porro deinde sequatur. 
Nec perse quemquam tempus sentire fatendunist 
Semotum ab rerum motu placidaque quiete.” 
— De Rerum Natuta. I, 459-463. 
We have already seen that it is unthinkable that all force should 
be absorbed into one, and thus lost. Brief investigation indicates that 
the law of conservation of energy applies in all spheres, and that prop- 
ogation of energy has its own laws. 
Being is tossed on the waves of the ^-becoming,” but becoming, in 
any other than a world of chance, constitutes existence. Self-propoga- 
ting existence is such becoming as is conforming to the rhythm of the 
universal pulse, and hence is growing more and more indestructable. 
Personal existence adds to this conformity that self-consciousness which 
is but the promise of the highest conceivable state, where each part is 
conscious of the whole. The existence of the individual implies a law 
and a progression, this is^termed development, while each individual 
forms part of a progression called evolution. Each of these factors 
has its counterpart in the nature of man, the first in memory, the sec- 
ond in heredity. 
As in the working out of the individual progression (development) 
memory is a necessary condition, so is heredity an essential condition 
of the larger progression involving all living beings. But the second 
of these is seen to be in harmony with a progession expressed in the 
non-vital existences, in which a sort of memory is provided in latent 
energy, so-called. Thus we see all nature points in one way. First, 
beings range themselves in sequence producing existence. Inanimate 
existence is diversified into a great system and in this process lays up 
stores of latent energy. Living things move in accordance with sim- 
ilar laws and embalm them in heredity, while persons carry in memory 
the evidence of that path of development which they pursue. With 
the cumulative evidence thus furnished, shall we hesitate to form the 
legitimate induction that further evolution is possible? Conscience 
seems to correspond to memory in a sphere in which forces of a non- 
physical sort play in the same harmony seen in the more gross activi- 
ties, and, by the far-reaching sanctions of its laws, conscience claims 
for its arena a wider domain than that of earth. 
What Lotze means by speaking of the' soul as a strain of music 
with pauses is hard to say, but such a conception as seems to be pre- 
sented is out of harmony with his system as applied to personal exist- 
ence and is contrary to his teaching elsewhere. Personal existence is a 
distinct advance on life, as life on existence, and existence on being, 
yet one grows out of the other and all have their residence in that 
Universal which, as we have seen, must unify all being in , so far as 
there is a possibility of interaction. This progressive character and 
interpendence permits us to produce the chain inductively into the 
future as well as to trace it backward. 
The onward sweep of evolution will ultimately overtake the slug- 
gish flood of the physical which forms its present vehicle and beat out 
