THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 83 



Thus we keep before our minds the all-important 

 natural distinctions (1) between organisms and non- 

 organized matter, and (2) between the mineral, the 

 vegetal, and the animal kingdoms. 



Before concluding this chapter, I wish to express 

 my cordial agreement with the philosophic views of 

 Professor Huxley, not that any words of mine could 

 add to his now " old and just renown," but partly as 

 an act of justice, and chiefly because it will bring out 

 more clearly the gist of my contention. 



To represent his views as materialistic seems to be 

 such an outrage, not only on common honesty, but 

 even on common sense, as to make such objections 

 not worth notice. 



I go further and declare my conviction that many 

 of our religious and spiritual teachers are very 

 materialistic compared to him. 



I have studied the Bible, with the aid of all the 

 more accessible commentators, I have read my "Plato," 

 under Taylor's neo-platonic guidance, I have, at least, 

 tried to master Swedenborg's teaching, and have 

 mystified myself, I hope usefully, in Jacob Boehme's 

 works, and nowhere do I find a less materialistic 

 philosophy than that of Professor Huxley. 



I, for my part, know no fuller and better exposition 

 of that saying which expresses the very key-note of 

 Christian doctrine Kai 6 AO>* <rap *V W * than in 



467 of the same book, where astronomic and geologic changes are 

 reckoned amongst the factors which co-operate in the evolution 

 of life. 



* St. John i. 14, and vi. 63, Thought expresses itself in a 

 material form, which latter, in itself, counts for nothing (rj <rap 

 OVK <afa\i ov&v), though all important as a symbol, making 

 truth " more or less accessible to us." 



