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have resulted, according to known laws of the ' c °” d “? tl0 p ° f 
heat from anv previous distribution. According to this, Fro 
fessor Clifford’s Lienee has no alternative theory to propose to 
that of the “Creation” of all things from nothing. And as to the 
" conclusion of all things ” he is not prepared, on other grounds, 
to sav whether it will come from heat at all . It m y , 
says/ from cold. The earth may fall into the sun, after it 
ha 63 CO We accept^ much of Professor Clifford’s criticism as 
just; but we must not therefoie conclude 
Points are \ ’ t h e wor k of the authors of The Unseen 
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Prosser Universe is written in vain, even though so many 
clifford - links in their argument are in themselves weak, 
and ^aps between some of them destroy all its continuity. The 
work itself "ives a kind of landing, where we may take breath m 
the controversy as to “ Life,” which physical science has often 
carried on with philosophy and religion, with so much preten- 
sion It has, not unfrequently, been difficult to fix the popular 
science lecturer to anything but experiments and imagina- 
tion ” But the undisputed confession of these clear and com- 
petent writers, and no less of their clear and competent critic 
at least disposes for the present of “ Abiogenesis. Life and 
force and energy are at last admitted to be it / 0 2 
have always said) beyond physical science, and all it- analysis. 
The sceptic must rehabilitate his old materialism as an 
instrument for rejecting Causation; and the fatalist must 
no more rely on “ necessity,” or on predestination. 
But import- as at a ll accounting for the phenomena of Lite or 
beendone by* Responsibility. We are told, beyond dispute even 
'Hw among men of science, how far the physical Law of 
Universe ■ Continuity can go. It is a great gain. We have 
turned a corner in a tiresome controversial by-way, and aje now 
: n t i ip onen roa d. Our authors have set up a true land- 
mark. For all hesitating and troubled minds tempted to mere 
Materialism, there is a real advance of position in the pages 
before us Their open and unreserved rejection of Abio- 
genesis. — their feeling after an Ontology and Theology, as a 
kind of need of all ultimate thought,— their detection of the 
material boundary, and the look beyond: all these constitute 
this work as a definite gain to truth. Henceforth, the philo- 
sopher, and possibly the theologian, has facts to dea with and 
work to do, as to which Materialism is confessedly power- 
less When the Materialist becomes anything more than me- 
chanical he enters another region, a region where he meets 
