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criticism. We must remember that the 

 speaker professed to give us only his own con- 

 fession of faith. In spite of his fine words, 

 such as ' universal logic ' and ' universal har- 

 mony,' no one will discover in his speech any 

 consistent logical arguments, and still less any 

 really ideal theory of life. What Bolsche has 

 given us is no scientific result, but a dogmatic 

 outline of monism, in which all clear conceptions 

 and ideals vanish in fantastic vagueness. The 

 parody of the Christian commandment to love 

 God and one's neighbour, with which the 

 speaker concluded, was probably a severe 

 trial of patience to the Christians among his 

 audience. 



III. PROFESSOR DAHL'S SPEECH. 



Professor Dahl began by saying that he intended 

 to discuss only a few points, which seemed to him 

 of particular importance, and with regard to which 

 he did not agree with Father Wasmann. 1 



6 In the first place, Father Wasmann has declared 

 it to be incompatible with scientific thought to 

 assume that matter always existed. I believe that 



1 Dahl seemed to imply that there were other points on which he agreed 

 with me. 



