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up the sum total of existence ; and that what we know 

 as psychical phenomena in man and other animals, 

 are to be interpreted, in an ultimate analysis as sim- 

 ply the peculiar aspect, which is assumed by certnin 

 enormously complicated motions of matter.' (Cent. 

 Die. 5, p. 3658.) 



According to this view, if one should meet a 

 friend, the sight of him would set certain atoms in 

 his eyes and brain in motion; and these atoms would 

 inform the Ego that the man is his friend, Smith or 

 Jones. 



So, if one be required to find the square root 

 of 3,600, his eyes or ears would see or hear the prob- 

 lem; and the sight or hearing of it would set cer- 

 tain atoms in motion ; and by this motion they would 

 ascertain that 60 is the square root required. But 

 the theory is too absurd for discussion, in this place. 



I assume that every evolutionist is logically a 

 materialist. Refering to "Man and the rest of the 

 living world,' Huxley, (Man's Place, etc., p. 151), 

 says: 



"I can see no excuse for doubting that all are 

 co-ordinated terms of nature 's great progression, from 

 the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the 

 organic from the blind force to conscious intellect 

 and will." 



So far as I know he does not mention the Creator 

 nor the human soul in any of his works ; but he stren- 

 uously maintains that man is a son of an ape; and 

 believes that all the phenomena of life are the result 

 of chemical and mechanical forces. 



Herbert Spencer does not use the word "God," 



