1884.] 
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CORRESPONDENCE, 
"opinion^ expressed^ Tcorresnn^rf 6 ^ res P°f lsi ^ le . for statements of fads or 
of their resp P edive authors. P dence ’ or ln Articles bearing the signature 
PROFESSOR TYNDALL AND MATERIALISM. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
, Sl f’ 7 l ! ntl1 7 ery lately Professor Tyndall has been universal^ 
held to be a Materialist. As an instance of the manner b which 
he ha S been spo] of j take a few hnes which you, in voS 
October issue (p. 614), quoted from a Ledture delivered by Dr 
Usher at Ballaarat. The lecturer is reported as sayin- J r is 
incomprehensible to me how men . . . nevertheless reiedt a 
Designer, as everyone must acknowledge who reads Tyndall’s 
fhSout^^VefrT * he HneS - ra ? k Atheist t„T y y vei.ed 
“ f as ed wh Jhd ^ American journal quotes him as saying- 
11 asked whether Science has solved, or is in our dav likplv tn 
doubt’ th Beh P md b ' e T ° f the ,“— . I mu* shake % heat „° 
ubt. Behind, above, and around us, the real mvsterv of the 
universe lies unsolved, and, as far as we are concerned Vinca 
pable of solution. The problem of the connexion of ’the bodv 
p“ d sci e entmc Lges S .. mSOlUb,e “ “* m ° de ™ aa * ^"2 
Here, therefore, the existence of a soul— a distindt entity rp 
further be saVaa^ Wi ' h ^° dy - is Emitted. It may 
, sald ‘J at Us immateriality is conceded. Why else 
cLT; d diffi S cuTp n 7em ? WUh * he b ° dy be "“*** aa a » espe. 
sen^e'-ind’Vmf t‘ Tn” ^ ^ ,0 be taken in its ordinary 
sense, and Prof. Tyndall makes no stipulation to the contrary 
^fSa? fi^7 Ma,ter the a " d "he pmen?; 
an terrestrial Bite ? How, again, are we all, “ like streaks 
of morning cloud," to “ melt into the infinite aaure of the past?" 
he quotation proceeds : — £< There ought to be a clear dis 
n ?hr s mm oTffa d in - the Stat , e 0t hy P. othesis and Science' 
n tne state of fadt, and, inasmuch, as it is still in its hvnn 
Of Evolmfom’” ban ° f eXC,USion OU§ht t0 fal1 "P°" the theory 
Yet in the Belfast Address Prof. Tyndall pleads ably and ear 
nestly for this very theory of Evolution, and even speaks of “the 
