250 Anima Mundi. 



2. With regard to the pyramids of Egypt all 

 are agreed. Who planned them ? 



" Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect 



Of either Pyramid that bears his name ? * 



By what agencies were they erected? With 

 what object were they designed ? These ques- 

 tions Professor Tyndall regards and rightly 

 regards as at once instinctive and inevitable. 

 But when these same questions are put with 

 regard to the "pyramidal salt crystals," whose 

 exquisite finish transcends all architectural 

 composition, the only answer is, that the ques- 

 tions are all at once and altogether out of 

 place. 



And yet it is Professor Tyndall who tells us 

 that the very same constitution of mind which 

 compels us to question the pyramids compels 

 us also to question the crystals. Only, the 

 three questions which were inevitable in the 

 former case must, in the latter, be reduced to 

 one. " Who planned ? " and " With what ob- 

 ject?" are questions inseparable from intelli- 

 gence in the one case. But in the other, we are 

 told that these are questions with which intelli- 

 gence has nothing to do. " The scientific idea " 

 is limited exclusively to the one remaining 

 question the question least interesting and 



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