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opposite opinions. And for this purpose I select as spokesman a 

 distinguished naturalist, who is also an able psychologist, and to 

 whom, therefore, I shall afterward have occasion frequently to 

 refer, as on both these accounts the most competent as well as the 

 most representative of my opponents. In his presidential address 

 before the Biological Section of the British Association in 1879, 

 Mr. Mivart is reported to have said : 



" I have no wish to ignore the marvelous powers of animals, or 

 the resemblance of their actions to those of man. No one can rea- 

 sonably deny that many of them have feelings, emotions, and 

 sense-perceptions similar to our own ; that they exercise volun- 

 tary motion, and perform actions grouped in complex ways for 

 definite ends ; that they to a certain extent learn by experience, 

 and combine perceptions and reminiscences so as to draw practical 

 inferences, directly apprehending objects standing in different re- 

 lations one to another, so that, in a sense, they may be said to 

 apprehend relations. They will show hesitation, ending appar- 

 ently, after a conflict of desires, with what looks like choice or 

 volition ; and such animals as the dog will not only exhibit the 

 most marvelous fidelity and affection, but will also manifest evi- 

 dent signs of shame, which may seem the outcome of incipient 

 moral perceptions. It is no great wonder, then, that so many per- 

 sons, little given to patient and careful introspection, should fail 

 to perceive any radical distinction between a nature thus gifted 

 and the intellectual nature of man." 



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SCIENCE AND "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE." 

 Bt feedekik a. feenald. 



IHE doctrine known as Christian Science has gained so large 

 a number of followers, it promises the freedom from disease 

 which so many afflicted persons are longing for, it appeals to the 

 religious sentiments, which are so powerful to sway the mass of 

 mankind, and also claims a basis in science from which the world 

 is constantly expecting fresh surprises, that it has aroused the 

 interest of thousands who are trying to decide whether it is a 

 revelation of truth or a contagious delusion. 



Christian Science was " discovered " by Mrs. Mary B. Eddy, 

 then of Lynn, Mass., in 1866. The leading features of her doctrine 

 are that " everything is Mind," that there is but one Mind, which 

 is God, and that " man is the idea of God." Our bodies, and the 

 things around us, houses and furniture, trees, rocks, and earth — 

 all things composed of matter — do not really exist, but are only 

 the ideas of mind, something like the things of a dream. Matter, 



