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insthrument, and it was the noise I made 

 in dhrawing it, and nothing else, that you 

 mistook for the sound of the pogue." 



You know there was no conthravening 

 what he said; and the Pope couldn't open- 

 ly deny it. Howandiver he thried to pick 

 a hole in it this way. 



' ' Granting, ' ' says he, ' ' that there is the 

 differ you say betwixt the reality of the 

 cork and tliese cortical accidents ; and that 

 it's quite possible, as you allidge, that the 

 threw cork is really prisent on the end of 

 the sehrew, while the accidents keep the 

 mouth of the bottle stopped— still," says 

 he, "I can't onderstand, though willing to 

 acquit you, how the dhrawing of the real 

 cork, that's onpalpable and widout acci- 

 dents, could produce the accident of that 

 sinsible explosion I heard jist now." 



"All I can say," says his Riv'renee, 

 ' ' is that it was a rale accident any how. ' ' 



' ' Ay, ' ' says the Pope, ' ' the kiss you 

 gev Eliza, you mane." 



"No," says his Riv'renee, "but the re- 

 port I made." 



' ' What makes you call the blessed quart 

 an irrational quantity?" says the Pope. 



"Because it's too much for one and too 

 little for two," says his Riv'renee. 



' ' Clear it of its coefficient, and we '11 

 thry," says the Pope. 



"Hand me over the exponent then," 

 says his Riv'renee. 



"What's that?" says the Pope. 



' ' The sehrew, to be sure, ' ' says his 

 Riv'renee. 



' ' What for ? ' ' says the Pope. 



' ' To dhraw the cork, ' ' says his 

 Riv'renee. 



' ' Sure the cork 's dhrew, ' ' says the 

 Pope. 



"But the sperets can't get out on ac- 

 count of the accidents that's stuck in the 

 neck of the bottle," says his Riv'renee. 



"Accident ought to be passable to 

 sperit, ' ' says the Pope, ' ' and that makes 



me suspect that the reality of the cork's 

 in it afther all." 



"That's a barony-masia, " says his 

 Riv'renee, "and I'm not bound to answer 

 it. But the fact is, that it's the accidents 

 of the sperits, too, that's in it, and the 

 reality's passed out through the cortical 

 species as you say; for, you may have ob- 

 served, we 've both been in real good sperits 

 ever since the cork was dhrawn, and where 

 else would the real sperits come from if 

 they wouldn't come out of the bottle?" 



' ' Well, then, ' ' says the Pope, ' ' since 

 we've got the reality, there's no use in 

 throubling ourselves wid the accidents." 



"Oh, begad," says his Riv'renee, "the 

 accidents is very essential, too; for a man 

 may be in the best of sperits, as far as his 

 immaterial part goes, and yet need the 

 accidents of good liquor to hunt the sin- 

 sible thirst out of him." 



10. The assertion that each thing has a 

 mind of its own is irrelevant. 



One way of rescuing science from the 

 dilemma of the chasm, which has the ap- 

 proval of many modern students, is to as- 

 sert that every living thing, or every thing, 

 has its own mind, and does what it does 

 because it chooses; and that eggs and can- 

 dles are, in fact, psychical eggs and 

 psychical candles. 



' ' Call an organism a machine if you 

 will, ' ' says Professor Ward in his recently 

 published Gifford Lectures, ' ' but where is 

 the mind that made it, and, I may add, 

 that works it?" And he answers his ques- 

 tion by the assertion (I., p. 294) that the 

 mind that makes the living organism is 

 inside it and identical with it, and that 

 every living thing takes conscious and effi- 

 cient part in its own production. The eon- 

 text shows that AVard believes it is as a 

 conscious and voluntary agent, and not 

 merely as a part of an intended system of 

 nature, that the hen's egg is said to help 

 to make itself into a chick. The mind that 



