'/'// ti& 487 



re gome of us who have pon- 



-lion to 1 ;nple, ami 



IIII..M\ I- fa li.s in with our 



sholll'. MOM with tin- evidence lut 



; rue ma ..-i^i-r than 



iicfs upheld; namely, the- de.-ire to 



:iem tnu-. Ami this stronger wi.-h Q ..in to 



.-upp.:t. if he has reason to 



Kit it is vitiated by err< M to whom 1 



ivin^ studied this (jUL-.-t ion. believing theevideme 



ontaiico, thus 



vitiated, rann. it. They know full wrll that tlu- 



chenii>l now juvpaiv.- from inor^anii- matlflt a \u-t array 

 of Milotaiicc^. which \v. time a^- is tho 



BOJe product! of vitality, i . arr intimately ai'ijuuintud 

 with the .-tructural powor of matter, M evidenced in the 

 phenomena of rn.-talli/.aiion. They can justify aciuu- 



iv their Miff in its potency, under the proper 

 ilitions, to produce oruani>ms. Bnt, in reply to your 

 ion, they will frankly admit their inability to point 

 v experimental proof that life call be 

 |>ed. save from demonstrable antecedent life. As 

 . they draw the line from the highest 

 organ isms i tliroutfh lower ones down to the lowest; andj't 

 itTTfo* i>rojoiif?utioii ^o^ this line by tiie niteircct, beyond the" 

 raji^e of the seuseg^ that leads them to the cunclusimi 

 wlijch Bruiio so boldTy"enunciated.* 



f \io " mate rial ism v liere professed may be vastly 



dilTeivnt from what you suppose, ami 1 i . -ra\i- 



!o the end. " Tile (jne>lion of all 



. al world," hays .!. S. Mill, " is the <jreat biiktle-^round 



of in- Mill himself reduces external 



" possibilities of sensation." Kant, us we 



Iiave seen, made time and space " forms " of OUT OWIl 



intuitions. Kichte, haviiiL the inexorable IO.L 



iin^ pro\ed him.-elf to be a im-re link in 

 ion which holds so rigidly in 



an by making ii. 

 all that it inherits, an apparition of the inind.J And it i> 



linn... a- u M-ist " or a " MatcrialUt." 



llaiiiilti.ii." p. 154. 



ngdes Meuucb* i 



