The Microscope. 



Catalogue of the Michigan mining school. 

 Mich., 1890-91. 



Report of the secretary of agriculture, 1891 

 Trichina spiralis. — Dr. H. M. Whelple}-. 



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Editor The Microscope: — 



In the December number of your publication, I notice a queer 

 criticism to an essay of mine in last January number of Literary 

 Light of this city of Minneapolis, \\\ that essay I stated that 

 all the sciences had their basis as a starting-point, explained to 

 be an assumi)tion, i. e. an hypothesis, a myth, an hallucination. 



Please be kind enough to place an assumption, hypothesis, or 

 a mj'th, under the focus of your microscope, and see if you can 

 discover as much as a speck of reality in them, or can make one 

 out of them ; please inform us of the process by which such 

 things can be magnified into fucts. Please examine a reproduc- 

 tion, my starting-point for all sciences (not necessaril}^ with 

 your glass); you may perceive it, and the active cause of it, to 

 be an absolute fact — a self-integrating laboratory in full opera- 

 tion, generating and producing phenomena, in deathly silence. 



The point in science I desire to make, and to be understood, 

 is : That all the determinate elements called matter, or phe- 

 nomena, are onl}^ effects of causes, and of themselves, there are 

 no causes, power or activities in them. 



Causes are the active indeterminate elements (which I prefer 

 to call them, as the}^ are sometimes spoken of b}^ scientific 

 scholars) composing the universe. All powers reside in them 

 and them only. A definite amount of their powers and energy, 

 resides, permeates and pervades all determinate matter, causing 

 activities to be manifested m them. 



