biology! (See _The Organisms as a Whole_, by Jacques Loeb.) All phenomena _in nature_ are _natural_ and should be approached as _such_. The human mind is at least an energy which can direct other energies; it is incorrect and misleading to call it _super_natural. It is of course true that we do not fully understand the nature of the human mind and we shall learn to understand it when and only when we acquire sense enough to recognize it as _natural_. If we persist in saying and believing that the “spiritual evidences cannot be explained on a material base,” this statement should be equally applicable to electricity or radium. If this statement is false for these phenomena, it is equally false for the mind or the so-called spiritual and will powers. The scientific understanding of these phenomena will not “degrade” these phenomena, _because that cannot be done. Facts remain facts and no scientific explanation of a phenomenon can lower or degrade that which is a fact._ Electricity is electricity and nothing else, no matter what its origin; human time-binding energies (embracing all faculties) are the highest of the known energies—equally magnificent and astonishing—no matter what the base; and the scientific understanding of them will only _add_ to our respect for them and for ourselves; it will unmistakably help us to develop them indefinitely by mathematical analysis. The _base_ is not the phenomenon—sulphuric acid and zinc _are not_ electricity; time-binding energies _are not_ a pound of beefsteak, although a pound of beefsteak may help to save life and be therefore _instrumental_ in the production of a poem or of a sonata; but by no means can a beefsteak be taken for either of them.