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than they are spiritualistic, and no more 

 spiritualistic than they are materialistic. 

 Any argument which is apparently fur- 

 nished to either hypothesis is neutralised 

 by as good an argument furnished to the 

 other." This may be true of the results 

 in his own very subtle mind, but it is 

 certainly not true of the effect of his 

 presentations on the minds of others. 

 Nor is it true in the natural and only 

 legitimate interpretation of a thousand 

 passages. 



Even in close contiguity with the 

 above declaration of neutrality we find 

 him asserting that "what exists in 

 consciousness in the form of feeling is 

 transformable into an equivalent of 

 mechanical motion." 1 I believe this to 

 be an entirely erroneous assertion. No 

 calculable quantitative relation whatever 

 has been discovered between any form 



1 Principles of Biology ', vol. i. p. 492. 

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