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it has taught the idealist philosopher that nature is not to be 
torn apart into two opposing worlds of existence, that matter 
and mind cannot be totally divorced, but that in all her 
manifestations she is rather to be viewed as both subjective 
and objective. For, granting with the idealist, that self- 
consciousness must stand as the highest manifestation of 
existence, the evolutionist has nevertheless taught us that _ 
self-consciousness itself cannot be wholly independent of 
matter. To enter into a close examination of the parallels 
which appear between consciousness and organic movement 
would carry us beyond the limits of our subject, a few of the 
more evident facts, however, may be noted. If we examine 
into the connection which is found to exist between conscious 
life and the movements of the nervous system, here we find 
not only that the fulness of the phenomena of consciousness is 
co-ordinate with the complexity of the nervous organism, but 
that in man mental development is dependent on the develop- 
ment of the cerebrum. In like manner the researches of 
physiologist and pathologist have shown the closest relation to 
exist between cerebral action and modes of consciousness. 
Thus the evolutionary biologist has turned idealism from the 
barren task of explaining reality solely from the standpoint of 
the spiritual. If such be true it becomes evident that 
neither evolution nor idealism can in themselves furnish us 
with an explanation of the nature and process of reality, 
which rather must be sought through a co-ordinating of their 
labors and products. 
In conclusion permit me to prophesy that even in such a 
co-ordination the problem of existence will not unfold itself. 
If, as we have contended, in the manifestations of reality 
subjective and objective cannot be divided into a two-fold 
world of experience, but the principles of each are present 
in and essential to all her processes, then the physicist 
must likewise make his contribution to the solution of this 
problem. When the best fruits of the labors of these three 
shall have been presented at one common altar, let us hope 
that a new revelation shall illumine this ever-interrogating 
problem as to the origin and end of reality. 
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