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symposium. 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. 



