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[October, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
V The Editor does not hold himself responsible for statements of fads or 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles bearing the signature 
of their respective authors. 
HYLOZOISM AND HYLO-IDEALISM. 
Absence abroad has prevented my seeing Mr. Billing’s late 
lucubrations on this subject, which are really quite beside the 
question, in the “ Journal of Science,” until now. Might I ask, 
if not too late, that you will kindly allow me space in the October 
number of your fearless Journal to state, necessarily in the 
shortest terms, what the Brain Theory of Mind and Matter 
really is, Mr. Billing having already very successfully shown 
what it is not? C. N., who is a young Collegian, will probably 
answer more elaborately his mystifications on her return, in 
October, from Germany. 
The aim of Hylo-Idealism, or Auto-Centricism, for it has a 
hundred other names, is, in the most summary and conclusive 
way, to abolish the biblical, theological, supernatural, animistic 
or dualistic system of the World, — i.e., of Life and Mind, — by 
substituting the scientific, medical, monistic, hyloic, or hylo- 
phenomenal theory of “things” for that out-worn hypothesis. 
And it does this by proving, on data so very clear now-a-days, 
that “ all who run may read,” if they care to do so, that all 
“things” or “ nothings ” to which we have access, whether ab- 
stract or concrete, can have only a phenomenal or cerebral origin 
as conceptions or perceptions, — i.e., as objects of sense or 
thought, which surely are only faculties or functions of the 
Brain. Man must therefore anthropomorphise and anfomorphise 
from the very nature of his being, — a truth which unifies subject 
and object, Ego and Non-Ego, Self and Not-Self, making thus 
the whole universe intercranial as the creature of sight (sense) 
and thought. Light itself is not light till manufactured in the 
posterior chambers of the eye, “which is the only colour box.” 
All Divine Worship or Religion must be thus Self-worship, as 
out of Self Self can never escape, what is outside that sphere 
being nothing to us according to the immemorial proverbs : — 
Quod supra, vel extra nos, nihil ad nos, and De non apparentibus 
et non existentibus eadetn est ratio. Science, and especially 
