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exist, and showed on general principles why animals must 

 -uch ami Mich parts. When an eminent, contemporary 

 philosopher. \\ho is far removed fr<>m errors of this kind, 

 iibers th< the /> fn'lnri method. In- will li- 



able to make allowance for the jealonsv of physicists as to 

 ooeptance r >o called /) //////// truths. Aristot |,-V 

 errors of detail, as shown by Kucken and Lange, were 

 and numerous. lie atlirmed that only in man we had the 

 beating of tin- In-art, that the left side of the hodv was 

 rolilrr than the right, that men have more teeth than 

 women, and that there is an empty space at the hack of 

 even man's head. 



There is one essential quality in physical conceptions, 



which \\a< entirely wanting in those of'Aristotle and his 



followers a capability of Being placed as coherent pictures 



he fore the mind. The (Jermans express the act of picturing 



hy the word rurxtt'lU-n, and the picture they call a !'/</>/'/- 



\\'e have no \\ord in Knglish which comes nearer to 



our requirements than /nntt/ind/fon; and, taken with its 



proper limitations, the word answers very well. But it is 



tainted hy its a-><>eiations, and therefore objectionable to 



some minds. Compare, with reference to this capacity of 



mental presentation, the case of the Aristotelian, who 



the ascent of water in a pump to Nature's abhorrence 



of a vacuum, with that of 1'ascal when he proposed to solve 



the question of atmospheric pressure by the ascent of the 



Puy de Home. In the one case the terms of the explanation 



to fall into place as a physical image; in the other the 



i- distinct, the descent and rise of the barometer 



being clearly figured beforehand as the balancing of two 



van ing and opposing pressures. 



!".N :j. During the drought of the middle ages in 

 Christendom, the Arabian intellect, as forcibly shown by 

 r, was active. With the intrusion of the Moors into 

 Spain, order, learning and refinement took the pl.t 

 their opposite-. When smitten with disease, the ChrUtian 

 peasant resorted t> a .-brine, the Moorish one to an 

 instructed physician. The Arabs encouraged translations 

 from the ' hut not from the < . 



poets. The\ tinned in disust "from the lewdness of our 

 classical muholo^s. and denounced as an unpardonable 

 bla.-phcmy all ion between the impure Olympian 



