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assertions are confined to topics which lie within 

 the range of my faculties, they often appear to 

 me to be in the wrong. And there is yet another 

 reason for objecting to be identified with either of 

 these sects ; and that is that each is extremely 

 fond of attributing to the other, by way of re 

 proach, conclusions which are the property of 

 neither, though they infallibly flow from the 

 logical development of the first principles of both. 

 Surely a prudent man is not to be reproached 

 because he keeps clear of the squabbles of these 

 philosophical Bianchi and Neri, by refusing to 

 have anything to do with either ? 



I understand the main tenet of Materialism to 

 be that there is nothing in the universe but 

 matter and force ; and that all the phenomena of 

 nature are explicable by deduction from the pro 

 perties assignable to these two primitive factors. 

 That great champion of Materialism whom Mr. 

 Lilly appears to consider to be an authority in 

 physical science, Dr. Buclmer, embodies this 

 article of faith on his title-page. Kraft und Staff 

 force and matter are paraded as the Alpha and 

 Omega of existence. This I apprehend is the 

 fundamental article of the faith materialistic; 

 and whosoever does not hold it is condemned by 

 the more zealous of the persuasion (as I have 

 some reason to know) to the Inferno appointed 

 for fools or hypocrites. But all this I heartily 

 disbelieve ; and at the risk of being charged with 



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