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for saying that he accepts this theory, but personally 

 I cannot reconcile it with clear, philosophical 

 thought, to adopt monism, i.e. the essential identifi- 

 cation of God and the world, for the acceptance of 

 this theory involves us in innumerable contradic- 

 tions. As soon as we assume God to be essentially 

 identical with the world, He shares in all the imper- 

 fections of the world, and this contradicts our idea 

 of God as the infinitely perfect being. 



I can only express my gratitude to Herr Itelson 

 for his kindly anxiety about the rock of Christianity, 

 and I can assure him that I, for my part, have no 

 intention of crumbling away from the rock. 

 (Laughter.) On the whole, his words showed his 

 goodwill to me, as he called my coming forward here 

 a ' consoling appearance.' 



In answer to Dr. Plotz, I may single out what he 

 said about the Pithecanthropus for special comment. 

 He referred to difficulties which he thought I had 

 not taken sufficiently into consideration. The time 

 allotted to me for my lecture on the subject was 

 too short for me to mention every possible difficulty, 

 but more explicit information may be found in my 

 book on Biology and the Theory of Evolution. 

 3rd ed., p. 474. As to Macnamara's cranial curves, 

 to which Dr. Plotz alluded, many other considera- 

 tions have to be taken into account besides the size 

 and capacity of the cranium. Men like Kollmann, 



