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animal or the vegetable as the case may be. 

 But that is not the view of scholastic philo- 

 sophy^ That "its attitude has been misunder- 

 stood is probably due to the fact that those 

 who have criticised it have often refrained from 

 what they no doubt considered the unnecessary 

 labour of trying to understand its terminology, 

 which is its own and is not to be at once grasped 

 by the casual outsider. Those who are aware 

 of this fact will smile at Professor Huxley's Huxley 

 statement that he plucked the heart out of the ai 

 works of Suarez during a summer afternoon's 

 study in the library of a Scotch University. 

 If I say to the man whom I may casually meet 

 in any smoking-room, " H 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 + 3NaHCO 3 = 

 Na 3 C6H 5 O 7 + 3H 2 O = 3CO 2 ," he willl probably 

 tell me that he has forgotten all the algebra 

 which he learnt as a boy and that my remark 

 is unintelligible to him. Whereas, if I say, 

 ^ If you add lemon juice to baking-soda the 

 mixture will fizz," his reply will probably be 

 that my information is accurate if antiquated. 

 Yet the two statements are precisely the same 

 or connote exactly the same occurrences only 

 that one is in the language of the chemist, the 

 other that of the kitchen. 



In the same way if we define^ the animal soul 

 as a simple, incomplete substance or substantial 

 j'rinciple immersed in matter, that definition is 



