lectual action above given. Matter and
Mind are complementary, not incompatible. They differ with each other,
but they agree in being similarly related to a third term. Matter is
objective; it is thought taking form, becoming individual, manifesting
itself in space. Mind is subjective. The one appeals to the senses; the
other is known only to the consciousness.

Science reaches its full development only when it includes both physical
and intellectual phenomena within its scope. Every step which it takes
carries it further from the purely physical, and brings it nearer the
purely intellectual--that is the development of physical science is from
the individual towards the general, and it reaches its end, its
completion, only when the last distinction, that of subjective and
objective, has disappeared in the last possible generalization. When the
objective has been identified with the subjective, the distinction
between Mind and Matter has been obliterated, and we have reached the
Supreme Intelligence--the "I Am" of Scripture--simple Being.

Matter is the formal expression of thought, or the necessary condition
of such expression, and in this condition is found the link that
connects the subjective and objective manifestations of _being_.
Subjectivity is ideality, as objectivity is materiality. The
consciousness can take cognizance only of what is within itself, and
therefore without every other. Consciousness is therefore wholly
personal. To communicate an idea it must be placed within the
consciousness of another. To reach this result it must cease to be
personal, must pass out of the subjective consciousness into objective
form, so as to be placed in the same relation to the speaker and the
hearer. Thought, out of the consciousness of the thinker, is objective
to him, and to render thought objective is to give it material form.
Thought to be communicated, must pass out of the consciousness of the
thinker into a material representation. The assumption of material form
individualizes the idea. The artist's mind may be filled with splendid
conceptions, but no one but he can look within his consciousness and see
them. Before others can have any knowledge of his thoughts, he must give
them form, or embody them in statues or paintings. The soul of the
musician may be thrilled by the harmonies that his imagination creates,
but no other soul can join him in this ecstasy until he has given form
to his conceptions. So the thinke