LOTZE ON THE UNION OP SOUL AND BODY. 185 



a gloved hand, matter, meeting an ungloved hand, 

 the soul. You say that the glove presses on the 

 ungloved hand. What you mean is that the hand in 

 the glove presses the hand that is without a glove. 

 [Applause.] 



As I defend with few modifications Lotze's phi- 

 losophy, there will, of course, be partisan attack on 

 this lectureship from all quarters of the Spencerian 

 sky. It means almost nothing, partisan praise or 

 blame. Strong support and strong opposition will 

 come. A few Spencerian critics assume that, as to 

 what this platform has said of Spencer, it thunders 

 all around the sky. It thunders only in a few por- 

 tions of the hurt Spencerian and Darwinian sky, 

 which is by no means the whole of the firmament. 

 A little of that sky is sometimes found behind Or- 

 thodox mountain-ranges. [Applause.] But I shall 

 prove to you that I intend to mislead nobody; I 

 shall offer some evidence that no attack has been 

 made that is more than a Chinese noise of gongs, 

 instead of the real thunder from the sky; I shall 

 prove to you my sincerity, at least by asking you 

 to read all the attacks! [Applause.] Study them 

 carefully. We are here as students. Nobody will be 

 more glad to have faults pointed out than I : never- 

 theless I must assert, in the name of candor and 

 straightforwardness, that the attack which seems to 

 be made the bell-wether for all others is the one that 

 I am the most anxious to have you read. [Ap- 

 plause.] If that attack is the best that can be 

 made, there is no great risk to be run in defending 



