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back to the very sensation.
It would have to be endless.
It may be a continuous process.
However, in some way reasoning gets set in motion.
We think something to be desirable.
We reason out the ways and means of bringing it about.
Our reasonings become more and more concrete, nearer and nearer to the point of action, and then they are so crowded that we cannot, in our review of them, make out what they were.
The next thing we know, we are doing the thing we determined to do.
How has this been brought about?
A mere general formula cannot act, it can only produce a logical conclusion.
Shall we say that since a law is nothing but a mental formula, it is not inconceivable that a thought should alter a law, so long as it did not exert any force.
Suppose, for example, that thought could render a body, say a table an electrical conductor which was not so before.
We place the table on the ground and on it a metallic pot.
We let down