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II. BIOGENESIS : 



Harvey, and Francesco Redi. 

 Paradoxical position of Mr. Huxley. 



(1) As a Biogenist, he holds that 



" All living matter has sprung from pre-existing 

 living matter." 



(2) As an Abiogenist, he thinks that 



Life may "some day be artificially brought 

 together." 



(3) He thinks this has never yet been done. But yet 



(4) If he had been living in the remote Past 



He should expect to have seen it done. 



III. Prof. Tyndall's Fallacies 



(1) The " impulse inherent in primeval man." 



(2) " The possible play of molecules in a cool- 



ing planet." 



(3) " Physical theories beyond the pale of ex- 



perience." 



(4) His imagining the unimaginable. 



(a) The passage from physics to conscious- 

 ness 



Is " unthinkable." And yet he says 

 (6) " By an intellectual necessity 



I cross the boundary." 



(5) He tells us of 



(a) " The chasm between the two classes 



of phenomena." 



(b) He declares this chasm to be 



" Intellectually impassable " ; and yet 



(c) He proclaims his belief in 



" The Continuity of Nature." 



(6) The Continuity of an "impassable chasm" 



(a) A chasm "intellectually impassable"; 



and yet 



(b) " By an intellectual necessity" 

 He crosses it. 



IV. The Homers of Modern Materialism * 



Buchner, Oken, Haeckel, Huxley. 



" quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus." 



