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his work the great lines from Wordsworth's Tintern 

 Abbey in which the belief in God, which we defend, has 

 received its most splendid poetic, if not philosophic, 

 statement, the lines where the poet tells ^is of 



A Presence that disturbs us with the joy 

 Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime 

 Of something far more deeply interfused, 

 Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 

 And the round ocean, and the living air, 

 And the blue sky, and in the mind of man ; 

 A motion and a spirit, that impels 

 All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts, 

 And rolls through all things. 



If this passage does not recognize something more in 

 heaven and earth than is dreamt of in the materialistic 

 philosophy, we are greatly astray in our interpretation 

 of it. And how Haeckel would reconcile this assertion 

 of "something far more deeply interfused" with his 

 own oft-asserted monism and materialism, it would be 

 hazardous to say. Perhaps he would attempt to do so 

 by denying that he is a materialist, as in one place he 

 does. But how, then, is he a monist, as he so often 

 asserts ? And how does he deduce the universe, in- 

 cluding life and thought, from physico-chemical laws ? 

 Certain it is that this something recognized, in the 

 passage quoted, as underlying both matter and mind, 

 is also something very different from matter, in whatever 

 form encountered, or from the forces of matter, however 

 they be transformed or combined. 



Professor Huxley's materialism is more consistent 

 and more outspoken. In his last utterances upon the 

 subject, he states it clearly ; while at the same time he 

 gives us our choice between the materialistic and the 

 idealistic solutions. "For any demonstration that can 

 be given to .the contrary effect," he says, " the collection 

 of perceptions which makes up our consciousness may 



