346 FOOT-NOTES TO EVOLUTION. 
for these broad statements of personal faith yield no 
deductions which conflict with objective facts of expe- 
rience. ; 
As the third of these efforts to discredit science and 
its methods I have placed Professor Haeckel’s recent 
address, The Confession of Faith of a 
Man of Science. This remarkable work 
is an eloquent plea for the acceptance 
of the philosophic doctrine of monism as the fundamental 
basis of science. This doctrine once adopted, we have 
the groundwork for large deductions which forestall the 
slow conclusions of science; for monism necessitates 
belief in certain scientific hypotheses resting as yet on 
no foundation in human experience, incapable as yet of 
scientific verification, but which are a 
necessary part of the monistic creed. 
The primal conception of monism is that there lives one 
spirit in all things, and that the whole cognizable world 
is constituted and has been developed in accordance 
with one common, fundamental law. This involves the 
essential oneness of all things, matter and force, object 
and spirit, Nature and God. This philosophical concep- 
tion of monism and pantheism can not be made intelli- 
gible to us, because it can be stated in no terms of hu- 
man experience. But it has certain necessary derivatives, 
according to Haeckel, and these are intelligible because 
their subject-matter is available for scientific experiment. 
First among these postulates, called by Haeckel “ ar- 
ticles of faith,” comes “the essential unity of organic 
_ and inorganic Nature, the former having 
Unity of organic been evolved from the latter only at a 
and inorganic 3 ‘ ¥ os 
Warace. relatively recent period.” This involves 
the “spontaneous generation” of life 
from inorganic matter. It also resolves “ the vital force,” 
or the force which appears in connection with protoplas- 
Haeckel’s Con- 
fession of Faith. 
Monism. 
