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systematic expression of facts in terms of 

 one of their aspects does not exclude 

 expression in terms of other and totally 

 different aspects also. Denial of all sides 

 but one, is a poor kind of unification. 

 Denial of this sort is the weakness and 

 delusion of the people who call themselves 

 ' Christian Scientists ' : they have hold of 

 one side of truth and that should be 

 granted them, but they hold it in so 

 narrow and insecure a fashion that, in self- 

 defence, they think it safest strenuously to 

 deny the existence of all other sides. In 

 this futile enterprise they are imitating the 

 attitude of the philosophic Materialists, on 

 the other side of the controversy. 



And then, again, Professor Huxley him- 

 self, who is commonly spoken of by half- 

 informed people as if he were a philosophic 

 materialist, was really nothing of the kind ; 

 for although, like Newton, fully imbued 

 with the mechanical doctrine, and, of course, 

 far better informed concerning the biological 

 departments of Nature and the discoveries 



