Quote: if our will initiates at least one force, then all force is ultimately will-force

Quotation

in the animal machine, however minute may be the changes required in the cells or fibres of the brain, to set in motion the nerve currents which loosen or excite the pent up forces of certain muscles, some force must be required to effect those changes. If it is said "those changes are automatic, and are set in motion by external causes," then one essential part of our consciousness, a certain amount of freedom in willing, is annihilated; and it is inconceivable how or why there should have arisen any consciousness or apparent will, in such purely automatic organisms. ... [p. 368] If, therefore, we have traced one force, however minute, to an origin in our own WILL, while we have no knowledge of any other primary cause of force, it does not seem an improbable conclusion that all force may be will-force, that the whole universe, is not merely dependent on, but actually is, the WILL of higher intelligences or of one Supreme Intelligence.   Google-1   Google-2

public domain

Additional Titles

Quote: the universe is the will of higher intelligences or a supreme intelligence

Related Topics

Topic: vitalism, the soul (65 items)