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WALTER AUBREY KIDD, M.U., M.R.C.S., F.Z.S,^ ON 



danger which always exists, and lias been abundantly exempli- 

 fied in human history, of a person being absorbed in the 

 contemplation of one of these data to the exclusion of the 

 others. Hence have arisen from time to time the various 

 forms of Monism which he terms Pan-Materialism, Pan-Egoism, 

 Pantheism, each having its solid substratum of truth, but each 

 inadequate to explain and illuminate the whole of existence. 

 He sums this up by saying, " Unbalanced recognition of one of 

 the three over the other two, in thought, feeling, and action, is. 

 the chief source of intellectual error and moral disorder ; and 

 that life is good and happy in proportion to the due acknow- 

 ledgments of all the three. Confused conceptions of the three 

 are an inexhaustible source of two extremes — superstition and 

 scepticism." 



We may take it that neither Eeligion nor Science need for 

 a moment hesitate to make that unwritten, but all the more 

 valid, treaty of peace and interdependence, which shall advance 

 the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual welfare of man and 

 the world over which he finds himself, without his own desire 

 or seeking, appointed vice-gerent. 



The Three Data of Eeality. 



In the Bampton Lectures before us the three data of the 

 world of reality, the individual, outward things, and God, are 

 dealt with, especially the last. The conviction of personal 

 identity is shortly considered as proof that our knowledge is- 

 not all relative, as Spencer would have it. But under the 

 terms Science and Eeligion, Temple fully considers JSTature 

 and God in their relations to one another, and lie shows the 

 philosophical bearings of the study of these two greatest of 

 the data, and demonstrates the essential harmony and growing 

 raiyprochemeiit of their findings. 



But it may be well for us to take up one aspect of these two 

 great branches of knowledge, and ask what it is tiiat articulates 

 them, and them with the Ego or the individual ; or, to employ 

 another metaphor, wliat is the cement which must unite them,, 

 in our survey of existence, unless the superstructure raised 

 laboriously, and now in process of completion, be doomed to^ 

 totter at the first strong blast ? I submit that nothing less 

 than a teleological conception of the planet on which we find 

 ourselves, and of the universe as far as it can come within tlie 

 range of our mental vision, is that which alone binds me to 

 Nature as one of her natural products, and Nature and me to* 



