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dogma of the physical basis of life, as well as against the 

 mental philosophy founded upon it, than has yet been 

 brought forward, and the advocates of that materialistic or 

 non-materialistic idea may rest assured that neither the 

 utmost activity they can display, nor the most desperate 

 threats they can utter will suffice to do more than to post- 

 pone the time when their hypotheses will be thoroughly 

 sifted. If found wanting, their doctrines and all the mag- 

 nificent theories founded on them, their prophecies, and 

 their strongest asseverations, will be first discarded and then 

 forgotten. 



"So the common world may remain tranquil till Professor .Huxley 

 has either analyzed living matter into physical force, or has shown that 

 Dr. Beale has never seen any living matter at' all, or else can bring 

 forward a clear and unmistakable fact which attests that physical forces, 

 put together, will generate life." B. P. Contemporary Review. 



