NOTE ON MATERIALISM 73 



vital power, but will reduce vital functions " to the one set 

 of forces recognised by the physicist and chemist," it would 

 seem that matter and motion are in a fair way to be approved 

 as the fundamental realities. Thus we should go back to 

 the oldest and most real type of Materialism. And this 

 after all the aristocratic scorn we have poured on that base, 

 plebeian philosophy ! 



