TRUE LESSON OF PROTESTANTISM 



phy are just the reverse of materialistic. So 

 far from maintaining, as materialism does, that 

 psychical phenomena are interpretable in terms 

 of matter and motion, this modern philosophy 

 maintains that such phenomena are absolutely 

 immaterial, that they stand, as I said before, 

 quite outside the circuit of physical causation. 

 If the world were peopled with automata, if 

 men had gone on from the beginning like pup- 

 pets, eating, and drinking, and marrying, work- 

 ing and fighting, exactly as they have done, 

 producing human history in all its details ex- 

 actly as it has been produced, only without any 

 consciousness, without any sentient life what- 

 ever, then materialism perhaps would afford a 

 satisfactory explanation of the world. But the 

 moment the first trace of conscious intelligence 

 is introduced, we have a set of phenomena 

 which materialism can in no wise account for. 

 The latest and ripest philosophic speculation, 

 therefore, leaves the gulf between mind and 

 matter quite as wide and impassable as it ap- 

 peared in the time of Descartes. 



But while materialism is thus more than ever 

 discredited by the dominant philosophy of our 

 time, and while it will no doubt continue to 

 be more and more discredited with each future 

 advance in philosophic speculation, I see no 

 reason why there should not always be a certain 

 amount of materialism current in the world. 



