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oal inquiry, slitlos from these formula^ aiul syial)ol> into what is 

 commonly understood by materialism, seems to me to place hun- 

 self on a level with the mathematician, who should mistake the 

 .v'.s an<l y\v. with which he works his .problems, for real entities — 

 and with this further disadvantai:e, as compared with the math- 

 ematician, that the blunders of the latter are of no practical con- 

 se(pience, Avliile the errors of systenmtic materialism may para- 

 lyze the eneroirs and destroy the beauty of a life. 



T. IT. IirXLEY. 



