THE ETHER OF SPACE because something more than motion and force may perhaps be essentially involved. Still, physics is bound to push the search for an ex- planation to its furthest limits; and so long as it does not hoodwink itself by vagueness and mere phrases—a feebleness against which its leaders are mightily and sometimes cruelly on their guard, preferring to risk the rejection of worthy ideas rather than permit a semi-acceptance of anything fanciful and obscure—so long as it vigorously probes all phenomena within its reach, seeking to reduce the physical aspect of them to terms of motion and force—so long it must be upon a safe track. And, by its failure to deal with certain phenomena, it will learn—it already begins to suspect, its leaders must long have surmised—the existence of some third, as yet unknown, category, by incorporating which the physics of the future may rise to higher flights and an enlarged scope. I have said that the things of which we are permanently conscious are motion and force, but there is a third thing which we have likewise been all our lives in contact with, and which we know even more primarily, though perhaps we are so immersed in it that our knowledge realises itself later—iiz., life and mind. I do not now pretend to define these terms, or to speculate as to whether the things they denote are essentially one and not two. They ex#st, in the sense in 16