04 DOCT HIKE OF MATERIALISM. 



without means ; to history without definition; 

 to definition without axiom ; finally, to a nomen- 

 clature, which never designates the nature of 

 the thing which it is designed to proclaim. 



It is high time that absurdities, such as these, 

 should be banished from our schools of science, 

 and the rising generation rescued from the con- 

 tamination which they, in consequence, suffer. 

 So long, however, as the false hypothesis con- 

 tinues to prevail, that matter is the cause of 

 which life and soul are the effects, no hopes 

 whatever can be entertained of any philoso- 

 phical reformation. I, nevertheless, will main- 

 tain, that these opinions are not the offspring 

 of ignorance, simply ; but of two-fold igno- 

 rance, of that state of ignorance, by which 

 men persevere in error, without being conscious 

 of it, and which sears the mind against convic- 

 tion and reproof. 



SECTION II. 



The Materiality of the Soul examined and 

 refuted. 



THE erroneous opinion which the Material- 

 ists entertain, respecting the nature of life, or 

 vitality, are even more striking, when they are 

 applied to the higher principle which man pos- 



