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creatures, each in its several way, is a witness to the 

 presence of a Mind who could evince His love for all his 

 creatures, by evolving a nervous system as the physical 

 basis of mental enjoyment. 



But Monists see nothing of this ! They must have 

 physical proof of God. 



" Science," writes the anonymous author of Mr. Bal- 

 four s Apologetics^ neither affirms nor denies the exist- 

 ence of God ; she has no need to trouble herself about 

 any such hypothesis. ... It is altogether excluded from 

 the domain of science, which can recognise nothing that 

 is not based on knowledge. . . . The so-called knowledge 

 must be submitted to the tests of observation and ex- 

 periment ; if it is knowledge at all, it is capable of 

 verification, and the verdict must be final." 



Inductive evidence is here, I repeat, utterly ignored. 



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