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appear that the two can never be confounded. The 

 relation of concomitance between them remains an 

 ultimate and insoluble mystery. 



I believe, therefore, that modern scientific philo- 

 sophy, as represented by Spencer and Huxley, not 

 only affords no support to materialism, but condemns 

 it utterly, and drives it off the field altogether. I be- 

 lieve it is even clearer to-day than it was in the time 

 of Descartes, that no possible analytic legerdemain 

 can ever translate thought into extension, or ex- 

 tension into thought. The antithesis is of God's own 

 making, and no wit of man can undo it. 



The bearing of these arguments upon the question 

 of a future life may be very briefly stated. So far 

 as I can judge, I should say that, among highly- 

 educated people, the belief in a continuance of con- 

 scious existence after death has visibly weakened 

 during the present century. I infer this as much 

 from the timorousness of conservative thinkers as 

 from the aggressiveness of their radical opponents. 

 In so far as this weakening of belief is due to an 

 imperfect apprehension of the scientific discoveries 

 which our age has witnessed in such bewildering 

 rapidity, a word of caution may not be out of place. 

 For all that physiological psychology has achieved 

 there is no more ground for doubt as to a future life 



