friend Mr Herbert Spencer has
demonstrated this conclusively.

_Coldwaite_. Pardon me; do I understand you to say that the mental
process which enabled Mr Spencer to elaborate his system of philosophy,
or that the profound emotion which finds its expression in a love for
humanity, are the result of physical force alone?

_Germsell_. He says so himself, and he ought to know. His whole system
of philosophy is nothing more nor less than the result of the liberation
of certain forces produced by chemical action in the brain.

_Drygull_. Then, if I understand you rightly, if the chemical changes
which have been taking place for some years past in his brain had
liberated a different set of forces, we should have had altogether a
different philosophy.

_Germsell_. The chemical changes would in that case have been different.

_Drygull_. But the changes must be produced by forces acting on them.

_Germsell_. Exactly: a force which has its source in the Unknowable
produces a certain chemical action in the brain by which it becomes
converted into thought or emotion, into love or philosophy, into art or
religion, as the case may be: what the nature of that love or philosophy,
or art or religion, may be, must depend entirely on the nature of the
chemical change.

_Lord Fondleton_ [_aside to_ Mrs Gloring]. I feel the most delightful
chemical changes taking place now in my brain, dear Mrs Gloring. May I
explain to you the exquisite nature of the forces that are being
liberated, and which produce emotions of the most tender character.

_Lady Fritterly_ [_sharply_]. What are you saying, Lord Fondleton?

_Lord Fondleton_. Ahem--I was saying--ahem--I was saying that we shall
be having some Yankee inventing steam thinking-mills and galvanic loving-
batteries soon. What a lot of wear and tear it would save! I should go
about covered with a number of electric love-wires for the force to play
upon.

_Fussle_. I think this matter wants clearing up, Mr Germsell. Why don't
you write a book on mental and emotional physics?

_Mr Rollestone_. I would venture with great diffidence to remark that
the confusion seems to me to arise from the limit we attach to the
meaning of the word employed. It may be quite true that no idea or
emotion can exist except as the result of physical force; but it is also
true that its effect must be conditioned on the quality of the force.
There is as wide a difference between the physical for