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cannot offer them any happiness in the next world or in 

 any future state, because I do not believe that fluere will 

 be any future state, so that if you ask me what is the 

 cui bono of all I have written I cannot tell you. I offer 

 you no happiness here or hereafter, and all I can do is to 

 rob those of you who are fond and foolish enough to take 

 up with the idle conceits of my " vain philosophy," of 

 their present hope, and therewith of their expectation of 

 future happiness, which but for me they might have, 



I, (Huxley) believe that there is a good deal to be said 

 for the hypothesis, that animals are mere machines, as 

 much so as if they were mills or steam engines, and that 

 they have no feeling ; that theytio not hear, see, or smeli, 

 and that their " apparent states of consciousness," as they 

 seem to us, are only the results of a " mechanical reflex 

 process/' (" Itisum tcneatis amid?" This is philosophy! 

 This is science!). It is true I believe that I am only an 

 animal, come from one of them myself, and therefore you 

 may argue that I have no feelings, and may ask me 

 to allow myself to be experimented on accordingly for the 

 good of science, but I must beg of you to excuse me. It 

 might interfere rather unpleasantly with my theory, and 

 with the calmness, or to speak more truly, the cool 



