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Hylozoism and Hylo- Idealism. 
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V. HYLOZOISM AND HYLO-IDEALISM. 
By C. N. 
“ The question of the aninia mundi and anima huniana is at 
bottom one and the same. ... If matter ads by means of its own 
vis insita, and depends on no extraneous influx, or impulse, the whole 
problem of Immaterialism and Materialism, Supernaturalism and 
Naturalism, is solved in favour of the latter.” — Life and Mind on the 
Basis of Modern Medicine, by Robert Lewins, M.D. 
“ The philosophy of the earlier Ionic physiologists is Hylozoism, — 
i.e., the dodrine of the immediate unity and matter of life, according 
to which matter is by nature endowed with life, and life is inseparably 
conneded with matter.” — Ueberweg’s History of Philosophy . 
* HE blind Galileo lamented that he who had peopled 
the visible heavens with new worlds, and widened by 
well-nigh unimaginable spaces the boundaries of the 
known Universe, should now be imprisoned in the dark and 
narrow limits of his own bodily frame. It was a pathetic 
complaint, and not pathetic only, but significant of that 
genius which in the noblest intellects has power to unify 
Science with Philosophy and with Poetry. To Galileo dis- 
coveries were creations. The moons of Jupiter did not exist 
for the human race till revealed by his telescope ; the my- 
riad stars of the Milky Way were mingled in an indefinite 
haze, until, seen through his “ optic glass,” they started into 
bright distinctness. 
What is unknown and unconceived is virtually unreal. 
“ Let there be light ” is a useless mandate unless there are 
eyes and a brain which can translate stimulus into sensation, 
and extract colour and form from hueless and formless im- 
pulses. Yet the mighty astronomer spoke only a partial 
truth. The loss which he mourned was in reality the loss 
of an inner, not of an outer, world ; for the keenest vision 
of the most sublime intellectual exaltation could never have 
enabled him to transcend the limits of his own mind and 
his own organism. The God within had been robbed in part 
of his creative power. Sounds and scents and tastes and 
touches were still produced in the Microcosmos, but the 
source of light was extinCt. 
The successors of Galileo have not attended to this lesson. 
They terrify us with material vastness and splendour. They 
bid us contemplate astronomic cycles, which can indeed be 
measured, but can never be comprehended ; vast, cold, black 
