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Energy and Feeling . 
[April, 
the Lake of Geneva. It is well known that for domestic 
purposes water ought to be well aerated, so that the water 
from a pure rivulet is better than that taken direct from a 
mountain bog. This is at least partly due to the decrease 
of the suspensive power by the dissolved air; and the bril- 
liant crystal clearness of well-water is probably to be 
explained by the mineral salts held in solution, which favour 
the throwing down of all sediment. 
III. ENERGY AND FEELING: 
ALTERNATE AND MUTUALLY CONVERTIBLE 
AFFECTIONS OF MATTER. 
By W. S. Duncan. 
» N the philosophy which is the offspring of modern 
science there is believed to be but one substance with 
twofold properties or affections. That substance is 
matter, and its twin properties are energy and feeling. 
The present position of physico-psychology, however, is 
logically imperfeCt, inasmuch as it places an impassable 
gulf between the two manifestations of matter — energy and 
feeling. These two affections, it is said, lie side by side, 
and in parallel lines. Energy never once begets feeling, nor 
does feeling ever beget energy ; they never even affeCt each 
other in the slightest degree. Language of this import has 
been used, even quite recently, by some of our highest sci- 
entific authorities and by clear thinkers, though admitted 
by these authorities to be not unattended by difficulties. 
But a philosophy such as that is not only attended by 
difficulties, but is so illogical, so discordant with human 
language and experience, that I feel sure it must ultimately 
give place to one much more consonant alike with sound logic, 
scientific truth, and human experience. First, what does 
experience say ? Do we not say, when we wish to explain 
our actions, ‘‘ Such an idea, or such a feeling, was my 
motive for so doing,” — meaning that the subjective motive 
preceded, and was the cause of the physical aCtion ? Do 
we not know that most of our actions are aimed at subjective 
results, as so much pleasure or so much pain, rather than at 
