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in that case there is, indeed, but little 

 difference between us. But no reader of 

 Haeckel's Kiddle would have anticipated 

 that such a contention could be made by 

 any devout disciple ; and I wonder whether 

 Mr M'Cabe can adduce any passage adequate 

 to support so estimable a position. Surely 

 it is difficult to sustain in face of quotations 

 such as these : 



" The peculiar phenomenon of consciousness is 

 .... a physiological problem, and as such must be 

 reduced to the phenomena of physics and 

 chemistry" (p. 6$). 



" I therefore consider Psychology a branch of 

 natural science a section of physiology. . . . 

 We shall give to the material basis of all psychic 

 activity, without which it is inconceivable, the 

 provisional name of psychoplasm " (p. 32). 



Life and Energy. 



The one and only point on which I 

 think it worth while to express decided 

 dissidence is to be found in the paragraph 

 where Mr M'Cabe makes a statement con- 



