[November, 
724 Analyses of Books. 
numbness accompanying, but no inconvenience thereafter.” Am- 
monia and dilute tinCture of iodine are used as remedies. 
We must here, however, bring our examination of this admir- 
able monograph to a close. No naturalist, we are convinced, 
can read it without great pleasure, full as it is of the most in- 
teresting and carefully-conduCted observations. 
Life and Mind, or the Basis of Modern Medicine. By Robert 
Lewins, M.D. Edited by “ Thalassoplektos.” London ; 
Watts and Co. 
We have here a small, but most remarkable book, noteworthy 
not so much for the doctrines it contains as for the outspoken 
manner in which they are asserted. We cannot better expound 
these views than by quoting some of the “ ten theses ” in which 
they are summarised by the author : — 
“ 3rd. Natural Science is bound in conscience to divulge all 
her results, however much they may conflict with contemporary 
prejudices in order to satisfy the human mind and leave it free 
for the further pursuit and enjoyment of truth. Mental reserva- 
tion, prevarication, and suppressio ve?i, — even from such respect- 
able motives as Mr. Darwin confesses, in his ‘ Descent of Man,’ 
to have influenced him for many years, — as habitually practised 
by contemporary English thinkers and savans, is disloyalty to 
humanity and reason, ruinous alike to their country and to the 
cause of civilisation and rational liberty throughout the world. 
“ 4th. Natural Philosophy for 190 years past has rendered 
trite the axiom that everything in the universe proceeds by un- 
alterable law — an axiom thoroughly fatal to any form of religion. 
“ 3th. The world is from eternity to eternity. Nothing is 
ever created, nothing lost. Beginning or ending there is alike 
none. Only the foim and condition of things is perishable. 
Everything that exists dates from eternity. Ex nihilo nihil fit. 
“ 6th. The universe is boundless in space and time. Matter 
can have no limits, eternity in time and immensity in space being 
correlative. 
“ 7th. As the logical inference from the above, millions and 
millions of millennia are before us, in which worlds and systems 
of worlds shall flourish and decay ; at their lapse the universe 
can be no nearer its dissolution than at the present or any former 
period. 
“ 8th. The so-called ‘ Personal God ’ is merely an idol of the 
human brain — a pseudo-organism of pre-scientific man endowed 
with man’s attributes and passions, a remnant of Fetichism or 
Animism. . . Absolute Atheism is, however, no postulate of 
Science which does not venture to impugn the evidence of 
