philosopher, as f&ch, must be a pure materialist.” Of course 
he must ; it is a simple truism. He claims unlimited right o 
investigation into force and matter We. grant it. We who 
have had a scientific education, and rejoice m the liberty of 
thought which mathematical training gives— a liberty which 
is not license, because it is regulated by the clearest laws 
— we grant and we claim that right. 
But we demand something more, and as we believe, some- 
thing higher. The physical philosopher in his laboratory and 
his ftudy may be “a pure materialist,”— that is, he must 
honestly and simply investigate the laws and action of force 
and matter. But he is more and higher than a calculating 
machine, a handler of retorts, an intelligent microscope, a 
scrutineer of matter inert or active. He is a moral an 
spiritual being; and his relation to the God who made him is 
something, as we hold, far higher than his relation to the 
phosphorus or whatever else maybe discovered within his brain. 
Science is precious to the age, and its development is 
doubt leading on to tbe fulfilment of the purposes of the 
. , . -n i-mrlor- +Tna OTriwni? weicrut 
no 
,umg U-LL uu uj-lo — - r J. . • -i i 
Almighty. But the age labours under this growing weight 
of materialism, and material estimate of all things, and nothing 
simply material can heal it. There is needed wi , e wi 
of man guided aright by Charity, Faith, Purity,— to set in 
motion those material influences of sanitary, educational, 
social, and other improvements, to the want of ' which t 
outcry of corrupting society testifies. 
so we go higher, and say there is wanted that higher Will, 
the Will of God, to act upon the will of man, which is so 
feeble except in the direction of selfishness, and to cause it to 
throw off the bondage of matter, and be guided by the Law o 
Love. Nothing else can, but this would regenerate the 
world. I abstain from dogma, but every one sees where and 
how this statement of pure and simple fact and observation 
translates itself at once into the highest Christian dogma, and 
the most binding Christian practice. 
I do not know how far Professor Tyndall recognizes 
this action of the Higher Will upon the will of man; 
but he evidently is so impressed with the mechanical 
balance of nature, that in material things he at least im- 
plies that it must be excluded. “The idea, * he says, 
“of direct personal volition mixing itself in the economy 
of nature is retreating more and more.” And the teaching 
* Fragments of Science, p. 31. 
