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ful, though not correct, for the ordinary 

 use of the term is what is called " brute 

 matter," but his words seem to imply some- 

 thing distinct and apart from God. And 

 thus, in his Belfast Address, while noticing 

 the theory of Epicurus, and Lucretius, whose 

 god appears to have been the " fortuitous 

 concourse of atoms," and pointing out 

 that " Mr. Darwin does not say how his 

 one primordial form has been introduced," 

 Professor Tyndall declares how " Molecular 

 force becomes structural," and that " it 

 requires no great boldness of thought to 

 extend its play into organic nature, and to 

 recognize in molecular force the agency 

 by which both plants and animals are built 

 up. . . . Divorced from matter, where is 

 life to be found ? Whatever our faith may 

 say, our knowledge shows them to be indis- 

 solubly joined. Every meal we eat, and 

 every cup we drink, illustrates the mys- 

 terious control of Mind by Matter 



Is there not a temptation to close to some 



extent with Lucretius, when he affirms 



that c Nature is seen to do all things spon- 



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