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ceases to be real. Mr. Hall endeavours to prove, further, that 

 the mind of a man is " the result of the social evolution of a 

 community of protozoan-minds " ; and that the minds of Protozoa 

 again are compounded from the aggregate minds of their con- 

 stituent molecules — a belief which at present can be regarded as 

 nothing more than vague speculation. He desires to supplement 

 Natural Selection as a factor in Evolution by " purpose " ; that 

 is, the purpose, not only of the "principal mind" of the animal, 

 but of " all the minds and parts of the minds of which the animal 

 consists." The author here gets into very thin air; and it is 

 scarcely worth while to follow him. 



SCIENCE AND THE SUBLIME VISION, or the SEVEN AGAINST 



ONE : on Science and Religion, by Seven Men of Science : Sir Oliver 

 Lodge, F.R.S., Prof. J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., Prof. W. B. Bottomley, 

 Prof. E. Hull, F.R.S., J. A. Harker, F.R.S., Prof. G. S. Woodhead, 

 Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S. (Speakers in Browning Hall during 

 Science Week, 191 4). With Portraits, and a Suggestion from John 

 Edward Stead, F.R.S. (Pp. 138.) (London : W. A. Hammond, 

 price is. net.) 



Nothing has been more delightful to mankind during its history 

 than what may be called the Sublime Vision. When we wish 

 to see this Vision we have only to shut our eyes and think. 

 The world becomes a delightful garden made by the Personal 

 Omnipotent for that part of His creation which He loves best, 

 namely Man. Here in this Paradise we wander among flowers 

 and streams for our beatific life, perhaps labouring a little, 

 perhaps weeping sometimes as our friends suddenly disappear 

 from among us, and often gazing heavenward for communion 

 with the Power that has so wonderfully made us. But this is 

 only the beginning of the story. When we disappear so 

 mysteriously from this garden we do not cease to exist. On the 

 contrary, we are instantly translated to another Elysium a 

 thousand times more beautiful, where we shall live for ever. 

 There we meet those whom we knew before in the lower 

 terraces of earth — let us say our old parents, our missing 

 brothers and sisters and children and friends. In this second 

 abode we shall have no troubles, nor care ; and the greatest 

 of all sorrows, namely the ending of happiness, cannot 

 threaten us. 



In this little book these seven gentle and enthusiastic Knights 



