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[August, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
V The Editor does not hold himself responsible for 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Ar 1 8 
of their respective authors. 
MATTER AND MIND AN AUTOPSY. 
<• Und Gott ist heut\ \ver gestern Mensch nur war.” * 
Schiller s Don Carlos. 
In the July number of this Journal, the sequel to several former 
ones with the same earth-shaking motive, is a letter of mine 
“Immanence not Transcendance,”f &c., in which, as the 
synthesis of exadt Physical and Medical data, I labour to give 
the death-blow to all falsely-called “ Spiritualism, with which it 
is clear all the Religions of the World stand or fall. I then and 
there, as in other contributions to Hylo-Ideal Monism, aim at 
proving that our bodily sensorium is virtual creator ot all 
things visible and cogitable. So that when we seem to look 
h ou t ” into an “ external ” universe we really look “ inward on 
the subjective purview of a phenomenal world— Cosmos or 
chaos as it may be-represented by inner states of our own 
personal consciousness. No sentient eye, I contend, car i ever 
possibly have beheld an objedt not the content of sohpsismal 
vision. And no mind can ever think a thought not an adl of its 
own cerebral organism. So that the venerable Cartesian or 
other cosmical sophism, “ The Universe is a thought of God, 
must, in our Neo-hermeneusis, stand “ The Universe is a thought 
of Man, ultimately of the Self.” This change of front is clear y 
tantamount to the negation of the Paranotnasia, or cart before 
the horse provisional assumption, of a separate immaterial 
Motor, or Vital, Principle to energise brute matter or living body 
—a theory quite irrational and unthinkable— as the inteiadtion 
of an incompatible Entity and Pseudo- or Non-Entity, a theory, 
for near two hundred years past, superseded by the scientific one 
of Energy as the function merely of self-adtive and daedal 
Matter or Body per se. Immaterial Dualism, or Animism, is 
indeed identical with Ghostism, “ Sacred or Profane, which 
Physics and Physiology have long since disposed of. Medicine 
—however the Society for Psychical Research and eloquent 
rhetorical anachronists like Mr. A. Lang, in his exhaustive 
article on Apparitions in the “Encyclopedia Bntanmca, may 
* God really means only Lord (Khoda), the Latin Vir (as distinguished from 
Homo), the German Herr or Mann (as distinguished from Mensch). 
f By misadvertenoe this letter did not appear last month. 
