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<f Sririiee \uriuiis * hooks " contempt iin 1 , 

 in- dors not deline the Sacred iv>idiie; much le-s -i\- u> 

 liu- reasons why he deems then 



to " Nature." on tlio other hand, are magnificent tirades 

 against Nature, intended, appaivu ly, to show tin- wholly 

 abominable character of man's antecedents if tin- theory of 

 evolution he triu 1 . Here also his mood lacks steadiness. 

 \Vhile joyfully accepting, at, one place, " the widening 



. tb deepening* YUtaa of time, the detected marvels 

 of physiological structure, and the rapid lilling-in of the 

 missing links in tho chain of organic life," he falls, at 

 another, into lamentation and mournin- 06T th.- \ery 



v which rentiers oriranie life" "a chain." He 

 claims the largest liheralily for hissed, and avows its con- 

 tempt for the dangers of possible discovery. Hut imme- 

 diately afterward he damages the claim, and ruins all 

 confidence in the avowal. He professes sympathy with 

 modern Science, and almost ill the same breath he treats, 



tainly will be understood to treat, the Atomic Theory, 

 and the doctrine of the Conservation of Energy, as if they 

 were a kind of scientific thimhle-riggery. 



lli^ ardor, moreover, renders him inaccurate; causing 

 him to see discord between scientific men where nothing 

 but harmony reigns. In his celebrated address to the 

 Congress of (Ji-nnan Xaturforscher, delivered at Lcip/ig, 



years ago, I)u Bois-lieymond speaks thus: " What 

 conceivable connection subsists between delinite movements 

 of delinite atoms ill my brain, on the one hand, and on 



ther hand such primordial, indefinable., undeniable, 



as these: I feel pain or pleasure; I experience a 

 taste, or smell a rose, or hear an organ, or see some- 

 thing red. . . . It is absolutely and forever inconceivable 

 that a number of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen 

 atoms should be otherwise than indilTerent as to their'own 



.n and motion, past, present, or future. It is utterly 

 inconceivable how consciousness should result from their 

 joint action." 



This language, which was spoken 1 r. Mai tineau 



* Mr. MurtitH-Hu's use of the term " norad " is unintentionally mis 



: In his lat.-r essays we an- taught ih:c 'i..t mean to 



1 it to tti- Hihlr. II.-tliM", Hot. li.iVM-vrr. llii-iiti<>M tin- ' books" 



which IM- \\..iii.i api-.v the term. 



