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man is a mechanical thing by the physical mechanism of his 

 body, an authomatic, that his life as well as his soul and mind 

 are only an involuntary motion in his body. Thus, a professor 

 of chemistry is an automatic to his laboratory as a shoemaker 

 is an automatic to his shoe-latchet, A president of a republic 

 is an automatic to his presidental chair as a capitalist to his 

 bank, and finally a preacher of Divinity, of morality and of 

 ethics, is an automatic to his pulpit as an anarchist is an autom 

 atic to his dynamite bomb. Now, as every man is an automatic 

 for himself, how can harmony and happiness be found among 

 mankind? Yet the materialism is recognized in our times as 

 the glory of mankind and as the civilization of our century. The 

 result of this is that such glory and such civilization have 

 brought mankind to their critical condition. Every man be 

 comes an automatic, full of selfishness, and thereby becomes 

 more and more savage, so that each of them will become as 

 wild as tigers and as poisonous as serpents. 



Were I convinced that the teachings of materialism were true, 

 were the consciousness in a man nothing else but the excite 

 ments of the motion of his body, by coming in the brain 

 through the &quot;censory&quot; nerves and by transmitting through 

 the brain to the &quot;motar&quot; nerves, as Prof. Huxley has stated, 

 and as all the scholars of the positive school have accepted, 

 that the consciousness is the same with the feeling and the 

 emotion in man, that all these are nothing else but those excite 

 ments, and were I convinced, at least, that all the laws of nat 

 ure which are accepted by our scientists, are correct, then I 

 would have nothing to do only to commiserate mankind, and 

 to deplore their condition and their position in the world, that 

 after all their knowledge and science, after their commercial 

 intercourse and industry and after their glory and civilization, 

 they remain by their animal condition alone. But such is not 

 the case ; the consciousness of man is not the excitements by 

 his physical mechanism. A man is an automatic by his physical 

 mechanism only by his feeling and emotion, which are realy 

 an involuntary motion in the body, and only by his inductive 

 method, but not by his pure reason, not by the judgments of 



