The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-18

WHICH ne conCeIves to depend upon MS
! determination. The determination to do
| or not TO do something which we con.
| ceIve to be IN our power, is called will,
but probably it would be well enough to
bear in mind this fact, as Mr.. Buckle
says, that when we perform an action we
perform 1T in consequence of some mo-
tive or motives, that these motives are the
results Of some antecedents, and as all an
tecedents are either in the mind or out of
1t, we clearly see that all the variations in
the results-in other words all the changes
OF which history is full, all the vicissi
tuoes or the human race, their progress or
their decay, their happiness or their mis-
ery-must be the fruit of double action
one OF external phenomena upon the
mind end another of the mind upon the
phenomena.
John Smith, the monad, was so put out
with this philosophy that he determined
lying so compoSedly in the bed. He sud
denly jumped up from his arm chair,
went to the sideboard, poured out the
last contents of his bottle into glass and
drank it down, and proceeded to throw
aside his robe de chambre preparatory to
dressing. He was somewhat surprised to
see his double instantly spring out of bed
proceed to the sideboard and go through
the process of pouring out liquor and
drinking it down, although he himself
had already drained the bottle; but when
he saw the Quad smack his lips he stood
in admiration and almost wished he were
a spirit himself, so readily could he sup
ply himself, he thought, from an empty
bottle. He proceeded to dress himself
and saw that his double had thrown aside
his robe and was dressing also.
John smith, the monad, seeing this
endeavored to dress in haste, so that get
ting dressed first he would run out of the
door and shutting it quickly would shut
up the Quad, and thus get rid of him It
was failure. AS he rushed out, and
slammed the door, he found the Quad by
his side ready dressed. He strobe down
the street with the Quad close upon him.
He made directly for a drinking saloon.
and so rapid were his movements that
every one who saw wondered, but none
saw the Quad
John Smith, the monad, entered the |
saloon, and he treated the crowd, a thing |
ne had never been known to do before
In fact, he had never before treated so |
much as single person, and therefore |
his friends recognized that he was under |
some unusual influence He kept his ewes |
on the Quad, and noticed that whenever |
he drank the Quad drank also
Turning to the Quad he addressed him
thus: See here the first thing you know
you VIII De drunk AS no one saw the |
Quad and, as Smiths face was in the di
rection of his friend Robinson, all thought
he had addressed that individul. and there
was laugh He kept on treating and |
drinking and finally had the satisfaction
of seeing the Quad drunk, never suspect
ing that he himself was drunk-so drunk.
indeed, that his friend Robinson found it
necessary to take him home, and
the burden of his talk was as
follows: ego : non ego = hic = alb
Solute = subjective = consciousness -hic
-objective-knowable-hic Ego cogito
free will-hic-necessity- sum. t"
: Some?" said Robinson, some of WHAT"
. First cause, said he At reckon it was
brandy" said Robinson. Smith con-
5inued: "Noumenon-Kant" "Can't
what? said Robinson. "Plato. "Play
20 what2" said his friend. "Cognition, ="
aid he, and by this time he was put to
bed, and he went to sleep, and if he did
lot sleep the sleep of the just it was at all
vents the sleep that followeth deep pota-
ions. On the following morning when
lie awoke he found that he had arrived
It full consciousness. He looked around !
or the Quad and was glad not to see him,
md swearing off then and there he ever
fterward remained a sober man, and
lnally, notwithstanding the Quad and his
quotations from Mr.. Buckle, he proposed
o the widow and was accepted.