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phenomena, however complex, should be reducible to correlation 

 with the activity of certain simple motor and sensory elements, 

 their accompaniments and combinations." DK. FERKIER. 



1 ' Dreaming and waking are related as species and genera. 

 Inner work has brought cells into unstable equilibrium, and 

 excitability may easily become excitation. When the work of 

 repair is not done, the slight stimulus of the sleeping state is not 

 sufficient to rouse them. When it is done, the almost spon- 

 taneous activity of rested cells easily raises their processes 

 above the threshold of consciousness."-~STAVELEY HALL. 



" Man originated " by " evolution ;" " Life is the potentiality 

 of atoms;" u mind is a correlation of magnetic and psychic 

 forces." 



" What little I know about the matter leads me to think that 

 if M. Comte had possessed the slightest acquaintance with 

 biological science, (Philosophers disagree, it seems) he would 

 have turned his phraseology upside down. 



If there is one thing clear (clear!) about the progress of 

 modern science, it is the tendency to reduce all scientific problems 

 except those which are purely intellectual, to questions of 

 molecular physics, that is to say, to the attractions, repulsions, 

 motions, aud co-ordination of the alternate particles of matter. 

 Social phenomena are the result of the interaction of the 

 complements of society, or men with one another in the 

 surrounding universe. But in the language of physical science, 

 which by the nature of the case is materialistic, the actions of 

 men, so far as they are recognisable by science, are the results of 

 molecular changes in the matter of which they are composed. 



To a certain extent indeed it may be said, that imperfect ossi- 

 fication of the vertebral column is of an embryonic character, but 

 on the other hand it would be extremely incorrect to suppose that 

 the vertebral columns of the older vertebrata are, in any sense, 

 embryonic, in their whole structure. 



Matter and spirit are both names for the imaginary substrata 

 of groups of natural phenomena. 



In itself it is but of little moment, whether we express the 

 phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit 

 in terms of matter." 



