But if consciousness is inseparable from matter, this cannot be.

Do the billiard-balls when so grouped as to represent consciousness generate some second motive power distinct from, at variance with, and often stronger than, the original impetus?
Clearly no scientific thinker can admit this.

To do so would be to undermine the entire fabric of science, to contradict what is its first axiom and its last conclusion.

If then the motion of our six billiard balls has anything, when it corresponds to consciousness, distinct in kind from what it always had, it can only derive this from one cause.

That cause is a second cue, tampering with the balls and interfering with them, or even more than this--a second hand taking them up and arranging them arbitrarily in certain figures.
Science places the positive school on the horns of a dilemma.