CHAPTER VI 



MIND AND MATTER 



What, then, is the probable essence of truth 

 in Professor Haeckel's philosophy ? for it 

 is not to be supposed that the speculations 

 of an eminent man are baseless, or that he 

 has been led to his view of what he con- 

 ceives to be the truth by some wholly 

 erroneous path ; his intuitive convictions 

 are to be respected, for they are based on 

 a far wider experience and knowledge of 

 fact than is given to the average man ; and 

 for the average man to consider it likely 

 that there is no foundation . whatever for 

 the life convictions of a great specialist is 

 as foolish as to suppose it probable that 

 they are certain and infallible, or that they 

 are uncritically to be accepted even in regions 



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