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[February, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
v The Editor does not hold himsd If "ILT signMu”. 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles Dear,n D me g 
of their respective authors. 
NEO-PHRENOLOGY, OR HYLO-IDEALISM. 
Reverting to my letter in the January number of the “Journal 
of Science” on the sentient eye being the real souice of h , 
ot science • out of non-luminous tremors, may 1 be 
'T Tto maC hTL^rng short further explanation on this 
a-llowed. to 10 ^ res & ult 0 f pure Physical Research, quite 
f„To nt of r aphyslcT. And yet \ am well pleased to be judged 
hv the stridtest rules of sound Scotch or German moral philo- 
soohv which quite coincides with Modern Science, in eliminating 
r P • true (Etiology, or the dodtrine of first causes, fiom 
e of ^um® reasfn’and nature. It seems now perfea.y 
h FIZ hie that the domain of the Absolute is quite unknowable, 
:ss“ a-s bss s ass 
Effedt” 1 Kant in his “ Passage from Metaphysics to Physics, 
Ert i vnn Hartman the present dominant authority in Germany, 
and ,Y Th? Unconscious from the Standpoint of Physiology 
1 Darwinism " all tell the same tale. Now I hold that this 
Phenomenology quite forecloses Theology and all forms 
SmHtuahsm Whatever, leaving us face to face with Matter and 
Force (function) alone. Nous or Mind there is in Natuie, but it 
can be nothing else than our own mind, and hence all worship of 
£* Nous must be Self-Worship. No Brain can ever escape 
from its own funftions. Just as easily may body run away from 
• i Anri in the hvlo-ideal sense it is really the 
Universe* as mirrored in Consciousness, to which we have alone 
accesFso that the To Pan is stridtly a manufacture of our own 
mind ’ i e Brain,— all knowledge being thus really a foim 
cerebral symptomatology. Organ, as has been acutely pointed 
out to me } by P the Editor of this Journal, really means U erk * eng, 
i e work-generator, and it is hence absurd to postulate force, 
fun'akin or symptom as antecedent to, or independent of, its 
generator. This view gets quite rid of Mysticism and Animism, 
fhe deadly banes of Science, the two being mutually exclusive 
as well shown by Dr. Priestley, Phlogiston delusion, which 
