POSTSCRIPT. 



THE "CONFESSION" OF STRAUSS. 



" In short, if we would speak as honest, upright men, we must 

 acknowledge we are no longer Christians." STRAUSS. 



JF all who have recently confessed their belief in 

 the general application of physical laws to the 

 living world, Strauss has expressed himself most 

 emphatically.* His language is so distinct that it cannot be 

 misconstrued, and his meaning so clearly explained that it 

 cannot be mistaken. 



In direct opposition to the conclusions to which I have 

 been led from studying the structure and growth of living 

 beings (Part II and p. 74), Strauss affirms, "that we must not 

 ascribe one part of the functions of our being to a physical, 

 the other to a spiritual, cause, but all of them to one and 

 the same, which may be viewed in either aspect." But the 

 facts I have advanced in this book render it certain, as it 

 seems to me that in all living things there are really two 

 distinct classes of actions dependent upon very distinct 

 causes. There are physico-chemical phenomena, recognized 

 by all, and the vital phenomena, restricted, as I have shown, 



* " The Old Faith and the New, a Confession ;" by D. F. Strauss. 

 Translated by Mathilde Blind. 1873. Asher and Co. 



