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Tyndall has been speaking of these phenomena lately with 
a modest hesitation. He is reported to have said : — 
“ Associated with this wonderful mechanism of the animal body, we have 
phenomena no less certain than those of physics, between which and this 
mechanism we discover no necessary connection. A man for example can 
say I fed, I think, I love ; but how does consciousness infuse itself into the 
problem ? Science is mute . . . But if the materialist is confounded and 
science rendered dumb, who else is entitled to speak ? To whom has the 
secret been revealed ? ” 
I am ready to admit that the “ problem of the connection 
of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern phase as it 
was in the prehistoric ages but I should draw from the 
above admissions, with respect to the im potency of science, 
an argument in favour of a closer attention being paid to 
the soul and its phenomena, and also for the necessity of a 
revelation. Is there nothing “ revealed " in God's written 
book that is a “ secret " to science ? However, I think, when 
the “materialist is confounded, and science rendered dumb/' 
no sane man will ever again “ decline to pray " to God, when 
cholera smites down by his side those whom he holds to be 
nearest and dearest. Why is the “ connection " between body 
and soul severed by pain in so short a time, if that connection 
is not “necessary" in the eyes of science? Is “prayer" 
here, after all, suited for the philosopher as well as everybody 
else ? I feel that I ought to apologise for beginning my 
subject by this digression ; but so much has been said of late 
about the “ clergy " and “ theology," that I am beginning to 
tremble for “ science /' for it would be nothing short of a 
disaster if the British Association should take the place of 
a Church Congress or Synod. 
ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY, ITS RELATIONS AND 
INTERACTIONS. 
I will here draw attention to the combination of different 
facts or phenomena — the combination of laws — and some infer- 
ences pointing to a universal philosophy and the doctrine 
of one Supreme Mind and Intelligence. 
What is ethical cannot be separated from what is physical 
and theological, very frequently. There is a brotherhood of 
truths, and they combine and interlace in such wonderful 
order that it is often difficult to separate or distinguish be- 
tween them. Mind is connected with matter, and both have 
