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CORRESPONDENCE. 
*,* The Editor does not hold himself responsible for statements of fadts or 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles bearing the signature 
of their respective authors. 
HYLOZOISM AND HYLO-IDEALISM. 
As a further contribution to my argument, in the October issue 
of the “Journal of Science,” that each individual sentient crea- 
ture frames its own universe, or, as the great Naturalist Oken 
puts it in his Pythagorean fragment, that the Universe is only a 
continuation of our sense organs (Sinnen system)*, let me be 
permitted to quote the following numbered Notes. They are 
extracts from the “ Conclusion ” of an otherwise vulgarly realistic 
treatise, “Water and its Teachings in Chemistry, Physics, 
and Physiography,” by C. Lloyd Morgan, F.G.S., and seem 
thoroughly to vindicate and sanction, even as the result of 
Physical Research quite innocent of Biology, that hylo-phenomenal 
system of the world and of Life and Mind I have been present- 
ing to the notice of my contemporaries for very many years 
past. This somatic theory seems quite to march with the 
Pre-Socratic Protagorean Hylism that each man is to himself 
the measure and standard of all existing things or nothings 
whatsoever — a thesis which, by negativing all knowledge outside 
the Self, in a world where all is seeming, seems quite to dispose 
of, and depose the immaterial or supernatural (animistic) chimera 
at the root of all Theology and Divine Worship (Religion). The 
whole spiritual domain is clearly thus, at one fell swoop, for good 
and all, for ever and a day, eradicated by identification of thought 
and its objecfts (processes) — “ things,” on this hylo-phenomenal 
assumption, being resolved, or dissolved, into thoughts, i.e. 
cerebral processes. I intercalate among Mr. Morgan’s notes a 
few comments of my own. 
Note 1712. — Water is coloured. Now, one of the conditions 
of this colour is that there should be an eye to see it. [This 
condition is the very essence of sight which an objecft seen really 
is] .f Physically speaking, the water is not coloured. 
Note 1713. — The water may be warm, but this warmth must 
be felt [or, in other words, heat is ultimately a mode of feeling, 
not merely a mode of motion, as Dr. Tyndall, sticking half way, 
as vulgar realism must, has described it]. Physically speaking, 
* I need hardly point out to the readers of the “ Journal of Science” that 
the German word Sinn means mind as well as sense. Sinnen welt is the 
usual term for external world, the term “ external ” being thus clearly a mis- 
nomer, all sense and thought being self-evidently subjedtive or “ internal.” 
t Elsewhere the eye has been termed “ the only colour box,” a synonym 
pr parallellism for the sole manufactory of light. 
