SCIENTIFIC FAITH ONCE MORE 
chemical origin of life itself. He found no more 
place for miracle at the beginning than at the end of 
evolution, yet he repudiated materialism as emphat- 
ically as he rejected what he calls spiritualism, — 
declaring that the latter was only the former turned 
bottom-side up. While recognizing that “the logical 
methods of physical science are of universal applica- 
bility,” he saw clearly enough that many subjects 
of thought and emotion — doubtless he would say, 
many forms of truth — lie entirely outside the prov- 
ince of physical science. He recognized three forms 
of reality in the universe, — matter, energy, and 
consciousness, — and that the last-named was no 
conceivable modification of either of the others. 
Whether he assigned to consciousness the same cos- 
mic rank as to matter and energy, does not appear. 
It is quite certain that matter and energy existed 
before consciousness appeared, and will continue to 
exist after it disappears. But, in making this state- 
ment, are we projecting our consciousness into the 
past, and into the future? 
I note one weakness in Huxley’s faith: it seems to 
have balked at accepting the reality of things it 
could not conceive of. While looking upon the the- 
ory of the atomic constitution of matter as a valua- 
ble working hypothesis, it balked at the objective 
existence of the atom, — a point of matter which 
occupied space and had form and weight, and yet 
was indivisible. This was beyond his power of 
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