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Bymposium. From Berlin let us invite a scholar 

 who is often called the ablest German theologian, 

 and who in 1873 was a delegate to the Evangelical 

 Alliance at New York, Professor Dorner, a man so 

 far behind the times as to be trusted yet in the lead- 

 ing university of the world to represent the foremost 

 chair of a department hallowed by the great names 

 of Schliermacher, Trendelenburg, and Neander. 



These twenty men, ten British and ten German, 

 are pacing up and down on the Gottingen walks, 

 and we inexpert people listen. Frederick Harrison, 

 an English essayist and positivist, speaks first. This 

 is his language : — 



" My original propositions may be stated thus : — 



" 1. Philosophy as a whole — I do not say specially 

 biological science — has established a functional rela- 

 tion to exist between every fact of thinking, willing, 

 or feeling, on the one side, and some molecular 

 change in the body on the other side. 



" 2. This relation is simply one of correspondence 

 between moral and physical facts, not one of assimi- 

 lation. The moral fact does not become a physical 

 fact, is not adequately explained by it, and must be 

 mainly studied as a moral fact, by methods applicable 

 to morals, — not as a physical fact, by methods appli- 

 cable to physics. 



" 3. The correspondences specially discovered by 

 biological science, between man's mind and his body, 

 must always be kept in view. They are an indispen- 

 sable, inseparable, but subordinate part of moral 

 philosophy. 



