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conception ” (“ Problems, Life and Mind,” i., 420). A man 
cannot imagine his own annihilation,” but he “ can 
conceive it.” 
The Cuvier illustration shows us that “our senses are 
lecogmsed as telling us of an external world really existing 
in utter independence of us, and scientific views and theories 
aie constructed and accepted in harmony with this recogni- 
lon. Idealism cannot be true, because “it contradicts 
that conception of the Universe which the advance of 
Science makes more and more convincing and secure,” and, 
moieovei, it asserts that we have not that direct know- 
ledge of the world about us which our own minds assure us 
that we certainly have.” Thus, “ by building on the direCt 
declarations of consciousness as a foundation, we may be 
certain that we really know an external world, and many 
qualities of independently existing things, and not merely 
our own feelings, or a mere amalgam made up from our- 
selves and from external bodies ” ; thus, “ that an external 
world really exists independently of us,” and that its “ parts 
leally possess those very powers and properties which our 
senses and our reason combine to assure us.” 
“ Self-conscious, reflective thought is our ultimate and 
absolute criterion,” for thereby alone “ we know we have 
feelings.” Without thought we might feel, but we could 
not know that we felt or know ourselves in feeling. “ We 
believe in the certainty we obtain through the senses, though 
the certainty itself is not in them. Our ultimate appeal 
and supreme criterion is the intellect, and not sense, and 
that aCt of intellectual perception which is thus ultimate 
we may call intellectual intuition.” 
The standpoint of Hylo-Idealism is that “ man is the 
measure of the Universe.” Capt. McTaggart has made a 
corieCtion, and adds for man, which correction is accepted. 
This does not change the monstrosity of the theorem pre- 
sented as the highest possible aspiration of man, with its 
biain creations of mind, thinks, false images, metaphysical 
Egos, &c., the isolation of man in the self, — and that 
these thinks, creative powers, Materialism, is to be pursued 
to a certain point, so also Idealism, but neither to its 
logical conclusions. Haeckel’s Monism differs from this 
Hylo, as does Berkeley’s theory from its Idealism. Haeckel 
admits a cause, Berkeley a God : perhaps the protoplastic 
presentment is Haeckel’s cause, and the thinks Berkelev’s 
God ! ! * 
Herbert Spencer says, “ If Ideation be true, Evolution is 
a dream ; not Evolution only, but the whole of Physical 
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