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The following Paper was then read by the Rev. T. M. Gorman, M.A., 
the Author being resident in the United States : — 
THE THEORY OF UNCONSCIOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
AS OPPOSED TO THEISM. By Professor G. S. 
Morris, M.A., Michigan University, U.S. 
N a previous paper read before the Victoria Institute, I had 
occasion to defend the principle, “ Ab cognito ad incog- 
nitum ” (“From known to unknown”), as one of those which 
govern all progress in knowledge, and which must control all our 
speculation. It is the principle of continuity in thought and 
in the objects of thought, parallel with the physicist’s continuity 
of physical existence, and implied in the scientific postulate of 
the uniformity of nature. Positive science, proceeding on the 
indispensable basis of this postulate, testifies to the truth that, 
if knowledge is to advance, the newly-known, whatever its spe- 
cific differences, must still be fundamentally of a piece with the 
old. The simplicities of being, and hence those of truth, are 
universal in their reach — such is the faith of science. This 
faith is confirmed in experience. Were it without foundation, 
all things would stand unrelated to each other, except in the 
mere fact of their existence, and orderly knowledge, science, 
would be impossible. Having, therefore, once fairly appre- 
hended the simplest facts and laws of being, in any sphere of 
their concrete manifestation, the investigator goes on, using 
them as guiding threads in the labyrinth of existence, discover- 
ing and conquering new fields of scientific truth. Guided by 
the same principles, the philosopher, whose work differs from 
that of the man of “ exact science” only in that it is less di- 
rectly susceptible of sensible verification, seeks to arrive at the 
formulation of the most fundamental truths of being — truths 
which must be apprehended rather with the eye of the mind 
than with the eye of the body. It ought to be, but is not, 
