control of matter by mind is sanity, is rationality. We find it, then, to be the significant characteristic of our human experience, that which imparts to it its value, that mind is not subject to the laws of matter, but that matter, through its laws, is subject to mind and increasingly so; that mind is perpetually transferring to it its own conceptions, and reaching through it its own ends. This cardinal relation we may carry with us as clear light in an inquiry into the ultimate dependencies of the two terms. As the arrangements and proportions of a house are the products of mind, it becomes only a rational extension of the explanation to suppose that the arrangements and proportions of the world are, in a more profound way, also the products of mind. It becomes very certain to us that mind itself is not, in any way, the result of these very arrangements and proportions.

"If the mere existence of Mind is supposed to require, as a necessary antecedent, another mind greater and more powerful, the difficulty is not removed by going one step back; the creating mind stands as much in need of another mind to be the source of its existence as the created mind. Be it remembered that we have no direct knowledge (at least apart from Revelation) of a mind which is even apparently eternal, as Force and Matter are! An eternal mind is, as far as the present argument is concerned, a simple hypothesis to account for the minds which we know to exist. Now it is essential to an hypothesis that, if admitted, it should at least remove the difficulty and account for the facts. But