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CORRESPONDENCE, 
*<’ Th e Editor does not hold himself responsible for statements of fads or 
opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles bearing the signature 
ol their respective authors. 
SCIENCE— PHYSICAL AND MENTAL— A SELF. 
INSPECTION. 
In last month’s “ Journal of Science,” as well as on several 
previous occasions during the last few years, I have endeavoured 
to set forth, as simply as possible, the above position under the 
term Hylo-Idealism or Phreno-Cosmism. In its ultimate form 
this only means that, while in no sense denying an outer world, 
it can impossibly be anything separate from the Self, — the two 
being strictly sulidaire , — so that it really is a pre- and indeed 
anti-scientific heresy to speak of externality in a syntaxis which, 
though seemingly double, is really single, and therefore logically 
admits of no such duality. Subject and Object, to use conve- 
nient terms, thus merge in an adtual Auto-morphosis or Self 
formation, or Creation. Thus all the world with which we have 
to do is a relative and phenomenal one, — in other words a phan- 
tom, symptom, spedtrum, or idea of each formative mind, a 
state of Consciousness, nothing outside that snbjedtive sphere 
and which Science, now-a-days, must identify with Cerebration! 
On this thesis — the data for which seem utterly irresistible at 
our present standpoint both of Physical and Mental Science 
Materialism seems victorious along the whole line, and Spirit- 
ualism, or Supernaturalism, in any shape, seems utterly put out 
of Court; relegated completely to the same limbo as Astrology, 
Alchemy, and other Pseudo-sciences and Black Arts. Matter 
and Force — so called, living and dead, a distinction without 
difference, since the artificial manufacture of urea and other 
organic compounds — proclaim themselves sole masters of the 
field of knowledge ; what has been mistaken for Spirit being 
material energy, force, or action, the product, not the source, 
cause, or active agent in all operations, organic or inorganic, 
and which, as the special vitality of the Brain, cognised as 
Mind, with its other cognomens of Soul, Spirit, &c., which are 
really material not “ spiritual ” terms. In no language framed 
by man has it been possible to invent phraseology to distinguish 
