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A few pages later lie says : — Can we_, then, think of the 
subjective and objective activities as the same? Can the 
oscillation of a molecule be represented in consciousness side 
by side with a nervous shock, and the two be recognised as 
one? No effort enables us to assimilate them/^* 
Since Mr. Spencer represents a large class of thinkers, it 
may be well to show, in passing, that, in thus asserting the 
existence and the immateriality of Mind, Professors Tyndall 
and Huxley are in complete accord with him . However often 
any of these gentlemen may forget the fact, they are compelled 
to allow, when forced to reflect, that the physical realm is of 
a different order altogether from the mental realm, and, pro- 
bably, their acts of forgetfulness spring from an inability to 
break for a time the chains of rigorous materiality in which 
their whole lives are spent. In simple words, they And it 
hard, as every Christian finds it, ^^to live by faith.'’^ They 
know that there is in man an immaterial spirit for which his 
organisation can never account, but they are not able at all 
times to realise the truth. In their brighter and nobler 
moments, as Professor Tyndall confessed in the Free Trade 
Hall, Manchester, the mist clears away, and they see clearly 
man^s spiritual nature. At other times they sink down to a 
lower level, and then they speak as if we were only creatures 
of clay. From what, then, do these alternations come ? They 
come from this. When they are only scientists, and not 
men of science, — when they are but logical, generalising 
instruments, employed only in the realm of the material, — 
they are, at such a time, living in their own narrower world, 
and they speak as if that world were all that exists. But 
when they live out their lives as full- orbed men, and regard 
their scientific powers, as they are, as only one tract of their 
nature, then the vast reality of their spiritual being forces 
itself into prominence, and they see and feel that, although 
man^s body rests upon the earth, and is of the earth, he yet 
has kinship to the spirit Creator who gave that earth its 
shape. Let us, then, pardon their lapsus, and try to make 
them logical and permanent believers, by seeking to rival 
them in scientific precision, whilst at the same time all our 
Science is nothing but a large framework in which a nobler 
, conception of the spiritual is set. 
But that such is their honest faith the following passages 
evidence. 
Professor Tyndall says, in the celebrated Belfast address : — 
^ Principles of Psychology, vol. i* p. 158. 
