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use of his resources. He quotes Helmholtz and 

 Wundt every now and then with warm approval, 

 though wherein they should be found any more ac- 

 ceptable to the orthodox world than Tyndall and 

 Spencer it is not easy to see, save that the ill 

 repute of German free thinkers takes somewhat 

 longer to get diffused in New England than the 

 ill repute of English free thinkers. 



Then, among these Germans who are to set the 

 English-speaking world aright we have Delitzsch! 

 To speak of Wundt and Delitzsch is as if one 

 were to bracket together John Stuart Mill and 

 Frederick Denison Maurice. And then comes the 

 admirable Lotze, whom Mr. Cook is continually 

 setting off as a foil to Herbert Spencer. On page 

 179 of the lectures on " Heredity " he enumerates, 

 with emphasis, those opinions of Lotze which he 

 deems of especial importance with regard to the re- 

 lations between matter and mind, and then proceeds 

 to deprecate the u thunder " which he presumes he 

 has evoked " from all quarters of the Spencerian 

 sky." But, considering that the propositions he 

 quotes from Lotze express the very views of Her- 

 bert Spencer, only somewhat inadequately worded, 

 it would seem that the lecturer's alarm cannot be 

 very real, and the thunder in question is only a 

 kind of comic-opera thunder manufactured behind 



