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to these " forty stripes" an important Ap- 

 pendix , which " taken together covers the 

 whole of human activity, thought and 

 emotion, and places life and progress and 

 reform upon a solid basis." And they 

 inaugurate their Positivist system by posi- 

 tively declaring that " It is no longer 

 possible for an honest enquirer to accept 

 as true any of the prevalent religions. 

 Therefore, the great need of the age is a 

 thorough and entire change of human 

 thoughts, feelings, hopes and interests, 

 from theological subjective and illusory 

 suppositions of Hebrew and Christian 

 mythology, to the modern objective, 

 practical and positive conclusions, pre- 

 visions and rewards of science." 



The doctrine so grandly announced by 

 these New York Positivists appears to have 

 been something similar to the protoplastic 

 theories of Professor Huxley, only called 

 by a different name viz., that of Cellular 

 Genesis, which is invented to explain an- 

 other hypothesis dignified by the title of 

 Osmosis, which is in its turn to explain 



