payments only accumulate the debt. Money loaned must come back with interest. Time becomes an awful and avenging factor. It neither conceals nor forgets; but as seconds added to seconds make up the ages, so does a retribution to come enlarge and intensify itself. Wrong is immortal. Moral equilibriums are inevitable. Let every man who has broken a moral law know that, whether asleep or awake, in whatever continent or zone he may be, the remorseless law of correlation, of equivalence, of compensation, of equilibration, is ever in pursuit, and knows exactly where and when to find him for reparation or for punishment. The police of the universe is ubiquitous, its justice infallible, and its punishments complete and resistless.

LECTURE VI.

METHOD OF CORRELATION OF FORCES.

1. Correlation between unconscious forces. This lecture extends and applies the principles of the preceding lecture. What is force? Whatever moves matter is force. I take the bulb of the thermometer in my hand by the act of my will-force, and the mercury rises in the tube by a force that is not the act of my will. I am conscious of the will-force that takes hold of the thermometer, but I am not conscious of the action of the heat-force that moves the mercury up the tube. One force, therefore, is conscious and personal; and the other is unconscious and impersonal. The inverse correlation of the unconscious and impersonal forces that we are now to consider, will suffice to explain the direct correlation of these forces as well.

This supernatural will-power manifests both matter forces, such as heat, electricity and gravitation, and also mind force, such as animal will, conscious and personal in man, and unconscious and impersonal in animals below man. Correlative forces are exchanged -blind matter force with blind matter force, as heat with electricity, and conscious, superhuman mind force, with conscious human mind force, as when man

gives up his own will and takes God's will-the human and the superhuman wills concurring.

Grove says that the term correlative means a necessary, mutual or reciprocal dependence of two ideas, inseparable even in mental conception; thus the idea. of height cannot exist without involving the idea of its correlative depth; the idea of parent cannot exist without involving the idea of offspring. There are, for example, many facts which cannot take place without involving the other; one arm of a lever cannot be depressed without the other being elevated; the finger cannot press the table without the table pressing the finger.

Force is force, and if impersonal forces may thus be correlated, exchanged, bartered, so much of one for so much of another, why may not personal force be correlated? Force is a mode of power, and power is will, and will is a personal attribute of choice coupled with an attempt to realize itself, and why may not the personal will force of one be exchanged or correlated with the personal will force of another? And why may not the superhuman will force of an infinite person be correlated with the human will force of a finite person?

Grove, speaking of the physical forces, viz.: heat, electricity, magnetism, chemical affinity and motion, says that they are all correlative, or have reciprocal dependence; that neither, taken abstractedly, can be Isaid to be the essential cause of the other, but that either may produce or be convertible into any of the others; thus heat may mediately or immediately produce electricity, electricity may produce heat; and so

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of the rest.. (Grove on Correlation of Forces, p. 19.) But one force cannot be said to produce or cause another. The going of one force may be the occasion but is not the cause of the coming of the other, nor does a retiring force become another force by the motion or act of retiring. The maximizing of the human will cannot cause or compel the minimizing of the superhuman will, and the reverse. We cannot explain this any more than we can explain why any one force maximizes as some other force minimizes. Science tells us that this is a fact, and history and observation tell us that the other is a fact also. The correlation of mind-forces is as certain as the correlation of matter-forces-that is, as will is force, and as force correlates, a fortiori does will correlate.

Correlation is a method, and as method it implies will and intelligence. If supernatural intelligence and will power be denied, so all methods in the universe must be denied. Method of impersonal and unintelligent power is unthinkable.

Correlation is neither a process, a creation nor a generation. It is a method. It is merely an equivalency of forces or things-so much of one for so much of something else as its correlative. It neither produces atomic matter, nor organizes atomic matter, nor vitalizes atomic matter, nor personalizes atomic matter. It deals with matter and force furnished to its hand, already existing.

The correlation or conservation of force is thought. by some to be the distinguishing discovery of the age; but that depends upon what force is, and what correlation is. We expect to show that there are no forces.

as such to be correlated; and that all that correlation is, is the correlative manifestations of the one supernatural will power. In any one correlative act, the correlative forces as force, are two, but the Power is one. Supernatural will is the one power, and natural force is a special manifestation of this supernatural

power.

The scope of what Mr. Spencer calls the process of evolution, is a denial of creation, and is only a method of correlation. As stated by Mr. Spencer, "the affirmation of universal evolution is, in itself, the negation of the absolute commencement of anything." Mr. Spencer says: "Evolution is an integration of matter, and concomitant dissipation of motion." This is simply a method of correlation; and nothing more."

In other words, evolution defined as a method is the eternal correlation of eternal matter. Evolution described as a process has been considered before. We have seen that after the order of supernature in nature, when things have been produced, as in