CHAPTER IV 



MEMORANDA FOR WOULD-BE 

 MATERIALISTS 



The objection which it has been found 

 necessary to express concerning Materialism 

 as a complete system is based not on its 

 assertions, but on its negations. In so far as 

 it makes positive assertions, embodying the 

 results of scientific discovery and even of 

 scientific speculation based thereupon, there 

 is no fault to find with it ; but when, on the 

 strength of that, it sets up to be a philosophy 

 of the universe all inclusive, therefore, 

 and shutting out a number of truths other- 

 wise perceived, or which appeal to other 

 faculties, or which are equally true and 

 are not really contradictory of legitimately 



materialistic statements then it is that its 



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