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[May, 
Correspondence. 
II. Our Authoress rejects “ that Absolute Idealism which will 
deny the existence of aught that is corporeal, even of the sensi- 
facient hemispheres (B) and of the sensiferous nerves.” 
But to deny the existence of the sensifacient hemispheres and 
of the sensiferous nerves is to assert their subjectivity, and there* 
fore Absolute Idealism asserts that B is S. 
Now we have already seen that from the proposition all P’s 
are S, to come to the conclusion that all B’s are S is unavoidable, 
and at this conclusion Absolute Idealism arrives. 
Our Authoress, in confessedly “ rejecting that Absolute 
Idealism ” which she “by no means adopts,” proves that it is 
that part of Absolute Idealism that asserts that B is S which she 
rejects, by the admission that (HI.) she is “ forced to accept ” a 
“ Relative Idealism, which declares that the only Cosmos known 
to man is manufactured in his own brain-cells,” while she main- 
tains that the “real existence of matter” (Cosmos) “can be 
denied only by a metaphysical quibble.” Now this admittedly 
real existence she declares to be manufactured in the brain-cells, 
which must therefore, as the cause of reality, be also themselves 
“ real,” i.e., non-subjeCtive, which is equivalent to the assertion 
that matter and its manufactory, the brain, are not subjective, — 
that B is not S. 
But granting her own proposition, that all P’s are S and that 
B is a P, we have found them to lead to the inevitable conclusion 
that B is S, which we now see our Authoress denies ; but she 
herself admits that all P’s are S, and since B is P, and “B is 
not S,” our Authoress denies what she asserts, viz., that all P’s 
are S. 
We are therefore driven to the conclusion that the framework 
of the argument in favour of “ Hylo-Idealism,” or the “ Brain 
Theory of Mind and Matter,” which “ contends for identity of 
ObjeCt and Subject, of Ego and of Non-Ego, also contends for 
identity of Yes and No, of Sense and of Non-sense. — I am, 
&c., 
T. P. L. 
THE WILL OF ANIMALS. 
To the Editor of the journal of Science. 
Sir, — Noting the paragraph in the “Journal of Science ’’ for 
April to the effeCt — “ If the human will can produce efteCts 
without the intervention of bodily organs, why may not the will 
of other animals do likewise ? ” 
