78 HEREDITY. 



ment was in the original source of the developing 

 process; so that I am justified in asserting that the 

 reduction of all the constitutions or types of life to 

 four, or even of the four to one, is no reduction of 

 the marvel of the original compact in the cabin of 

 God's heart. 



If matter is inert, we know that it does not move 

 itself ; and assuredly it is getting to be time for us 

 to give up the theory that matter is not matter and 

 can move itself, now that Tyndall has done so. Look 

 into his Birmingham address, and you will find Tyn- 

 dall saying that if matter has two sides, — a physical 

 and a spiritual, — we must account for the two sides, 

 and that it is just as hard to account for the two 

 sides as it is to adopt the hypothesis that matter does 

 not originate force. (See Tyndall's Birmingham 

 address in " Fortnightly Review," December, 1877.) 

 The doctrine of the lectures given on this platform 

 is what is usually called "ideal realism," — scholars 

 will allow me to use the technical phrase, — the doc- 

 trine of Germany at this moment in her academic 

 philosophy, not in her unacademic. Separate always 

 the two great schools of recent German philosophy, 

 ■ — the academic and the non-academic. 



The New York Tribune lately did not know who 

 Hermann Lotze is, but it appears that Professor 

 Wundt of Heidelberg does. (See Wundt's essay 

 on German philosophy, in " Mind," October, 1877.) 

 If any of you will read a series of articles by Lotze, 

 that are to appear in " The Contemporary Review," 

 or the references to him in the new quarterly called 



