DYNAMIC APHORISMS 
The point of view of Professor Herrick may conveniently be 
summed up in the following list of propositions (which, however, 
it must be remembered were written at widely separated inter- 
vals and never revised by their author and might, therefore, 
have been stated differently today) : 
1. Existence (being) and energy are identical. 
2. Energy is pure spontaneity. 
3. Unimpeded infinite energy would to us seem indistinguishable 
from non-existence. 
4. Force arises from interference of energy and implies resist- 
ance. 
5. The complexity of resistance measures the quality of the 
force; the degree of resistance measures the quantity of force. 
6. A thing or phenomenon is a manifestation of force to our 
apprehension and involves a thinking together or synthesis. 
7. Substance is a reality or cause posited behind the thing. 
To the monist this reality is energy. 
8. The introduction of resistance is creation. Creation is 
the self-limitation of energy. 
9. The systematic increment of resistance — hence complexity — ■ 
is evolution. There is no creation of energy, only evolution of 
force. 
10. Matter is a subjective interpretation of forces in a state 
of relative equilibrium — it is imperfect or incomplete synthesis. 
For human beings this equilibrium must involve at least two of 
the forces appealing to our senses. (A rainbow is not interpreted 
as matter because the equilibrium subsists for vision only.) 
11. All forces appealing to us in ordinary experience are either 
directly or indirectly associated with matter, because all these 
forces tend to equilibrium. 
12. Vital equilibrium is the highest common form in which 
equilibrated forces are presented to sense. 
13. Consciousness is the focusing of diverse forces upon the 
complicated neural equilibrium — an equilibrium of dissimilar 
forces of a special kind, i. e., the synthesis of antagonistic forces 
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