1884.] 
Correspondence. 
435 
In your June number Mr. Fraser turns “ incandescent-lamps ” 
into “ glow-lamps,” and he may get rid of “ arc-lamps ” by calling 
them “ spark-lamps.” 8 
Foi fiee Government trial by jury is almost as essential as a 
liouse of Commons. Juries have less prejudice and more sense 
than judges, but they need reforms : — 
1. Abolish all exemptions. 
2. Let the jury list be chosen by the parliamentary voters. 
3. Let three jurors be named by agreement of parties, or, in 
default, by lot, and let four more be named by lot, seven making' 
the jury. ° 
. 4 * Treat them with honour : let them be “ the Court,” and let 
judges be their assistants. 
5. Abolish unanimity, and after an hour’s discussion let the 
majority decide. Let the minority record their opinion, and let 
it be the only ground for fresh trial. 
6. Make the jury judges of law as well as of fadt. 
7. Give the jury power to stop insulting and idle cross-examina- 
tion by the Bar, and to fine silly jokes by the Bench. 
June 7, 1884. 
Nomikos. 
[We inserted the communication of “An Old Technologist ’ 
in order to ventilate a grievance which scientific men feel very 
strongly. Into the general question of the defedts of any other 
than technical trials, or into any “ reforms ” of the courts of * 
justice, we have no right to enter. — Ed. J. S.] 
HYLOZOISM AND HYLO-IDEALISM. 
For so interesting a writer as C. N. to fall into the error of 
asserting that “ whatever philosophy the future has in store 
must be built on the seemingly (!) narrow foundation ” of the 
part containing the whole is indeed a misfortune for the philo- 
sophy she (?) so ably advocates, since it may tend to a hesitancy 
on the part of some “ mystical mathematicians and trans- 
cendental chemists ” in accepting her leadership through these 
realms, with which, lying “beyond thought and perception,” 
they “ can have nothing to do.” 
The “ Autocentric ideal,” though “ wide and lofty as thought, 
and clear and vivid as sensation,” is based upon the assumption 
that “ the world, as we know it,” “ is produced within that 
‘crumpled pocket-handkerchief’ called the cerebrum.” Now 
as the cerebrum is part of the world, this is tantamount to 
saying that the whole (unknown) is produced by, or contained in 
