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Cope says: "The general proposition that life has preceded organization in the order of time, may be regarded as established." In connection with some consideration of "the law of use and effort," he says that "animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements," and that, "as animal movements are primitively determined by sensibility, or consciousness, consciousness has been and is one of the primary factors in the evolution of animal forms." He adds further on: "The origin of the acts is, however, believed to have been in consciousness."' All this points to the one fact that mind was the originator of organic structure, because consciousness is an action of mind. Evans, discussing the initial activities, says the same thing: "In the germ of the animal body, as in the seed of the plant, there is the living idea of the future organism. And that idea forms the body after the pattern of itself. It is function (or idea) that creates the appropriate organ, and not the organ that makes the function. For instance, the heart is made to beat, and this action commences before its tissues are formed, even when it is only a mass of protoplasmic jelly. So it is always the function, the idea, which creates its organic expression. Thus it is, and of necessary must be, in regard to the whole body." This array of authorities might be increased indefinitely. Enough have been quoted to show great unanimity of opinion on the fundamental proposition that thinking is first in the order of occurrence and that bodily actions follow thinking as consequence follows cause.
There is no more fitting counsel for the close of
this book than is contained in the following words from The School of
Life, by William R. Alger: -- © 2005 ~ Develop Positive Thinking |
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