462 The Doctrine of Evolution. 



evolved from any mode of motion. Motion can only beget motion ; it 

 is not transformable into thought. The psychic force must exist 

 fundamentally, coextensive with what we term matter. It can not be 

 conceived that at any particular stage of material evolution mind steps 

 in. "" The two are obverse sides of one unknowable reality. For every 

 motion there must be a corresponding psychical process. The two 

 can not be divorced. The unknowable and the knowable are each 

 infinite and parallel aspects of the universal life. 



MB. THADDEUS B. WAKEMAN (condensed) : 



We all wish to express in words the hearty applause which closed 

 this admirable lecture. It is one of the author's happiest descriptions 

 of the origin and progress of the great modern rising of human 

 thought which we name in the now sacred word Evolution. 



For two thirds of this lecture, hearty thanks ! For the latter third, 

 thanks with leave to dissent from the agnostic position taken as to 

 the consciousness, mind, soul, etc. Such dissent would surely come 

 from all phases of the positive and monistic schools of thought, and 

 it deserves earnest attention. 



The lecturer quoted some words from Goethe, but the words from 

 that great monist which his lecture recalled to me were those of the 

 grand confession in Faust : 



" Nun ist die Luf t von solchem Spuk so voll," 

 [Now fills the air so many a haunting spook,] 



and ending : 



" Wenn Geister spuken, Geh' er seinen Gang." 

 [When ghosts spook, let man go straight on his way.] 



Now, the trouble is that our distinguished lecturer, instead of fol- 

 lowing this sound advice of Goethe and getting us clearly out of the 

 old spookdom, has left the air as black as night with it. Certainly the 

 best use that can be made of ten minutes now is to indicate, if pos- 

 sible, some way out of this night of the " unknowable " into the clearer 

 day of " reason's brightness." 



Fortunately, our lecturer has just dropped the clew to guide our way 

 out in those other precious monistic lines from Goethe's Spruche, 

 which he and we can never quote too often : 



" Willst du ins Unendliche streitent 

 Geh' nur im Endlichen nach alien Seiten." 

 [Into the infinite wouldst thou stride ! 

 Go into the finite only on every side.] 



