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Uglier and has no virtue worth speaking of. I hope I 

 should be ready to stand by a falling cause if I had 

 ever adopted it ; but suffering for a falling cause, 

 which one has done one's best to bring to the ground, 

 is a kind of martyrdom for which I have no taste. 

 In my opinion, the philosophical theory which Mr. 

 Lilly attributes to me — but which I have over and 

 over again disclaimed — is untenable and destined 

 to extinction ; and I not unreasonably demur to 

 being counted among its defenders. 



After the manner of a media3val disputant, Mr. 

 Lilly posts up three theses, which, as he con- 

 ceives, embody the chief heresies propagated by 

 the late Professor Clifford, Mr. Herbert Spencer, 

 and myself. He says that we agree "(1) in 

 putting aside, as unverifiable, everything which 

 the senses cannot verify ; (2) everything beyond 

 the bounds of physical science; (3) everything 

 which cannot be brought into a laboratory and 

 dealt with chemically " (p. 578). 



My lamented young friend Clifford, sAveetest of 

 natures though keenest of disputants, is out of 

 reach of our little controversies, but his works 

 speak for him, and those who run may read a 

 refutation of Mr. Lilly's assertions in them. Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer, hitherto, has shown no lack 

 either of ability or of inclination to speak for 

 himself; and it would be a superfluity, not to say 

 an impertinence, on my part, to take up the 

 cudgels for him. But, for myself, if my know- 



