Which was otherwise incomprehensible used to be 
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the old idea of the abhorrence of a vacuum as expla P 
atmosphere The old notion of physical science was, that nature anno 
vacuum” ■ therefore, water rises in the pump; therefore when you us . 
vacuum . x ’ flll n vacuum” But the phrase was one that 
air-pump the tendency is q ; whatever views people may 
conveyed no true idea : it explained uuuuug /> n A OT ,,i a^pt- 
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that there is in man something beside and superior to "toS £ oLor 
fess that in considering this question, when listening others advocating 
Tyndall whose intellect I hold in great admiration, and to others advoc „ 
Kews I never can get beyond the astute philosophical reasoning of 
Descartes when he said, “ Cogito, ergo sum.” I think that t °se wh ^ 
examine this short enthymeme will agree that it contains p y J 
that can be assumed, independently of divine revelation all 
I am.” This is the characteristic of man which distrng * He is a 
other material creation. Man alone can say, “ Cogito, ergo sum. H 
distinct and isolated being, altogether apart from thes matter upon 
a I n acts Granting that there is something within the material which is 
tinct hidtself — and who can deny this ?-will 
it? I certainly think I never could bring Professor Tyndall to ^ y 
conclusion than to agree with me upon him 
ino this, is there anything more in man than that, whic = j es 
from the rest of the material creation ? Here I think we must apply ourselve 
