...of little moment whether we express the phaenomena of matter in terms of spirit ; or the phaenomena of spirit, in terms of matter : matter may be regarded...matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred....

...former, and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...spirit or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter." A remarkable declaration, certainly, to come from an eminent professor of physical science, the superior...

...former, and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...spirit or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter." A remarkable declaration, certainly, to come from an eminent professor of physical science, the superior...

...to the antipodes of heaven." He, to be sure, denies that he is a materialist, and yet affirms that " matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter," and again, " matter and spirit are but names for the imaginary substrata of groups of natural phenomena,"...

...mind that we are dealing with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we exprees the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter." A remarkable declaration, certainly, to come from an eminent professor of physical science, the superior...

...and no harm can accrue so long as we bear in mind that we are dealing merely with terms and symbols. In itself it is of little moment whether we express...matter — each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in everv way to be preferred....

...(p. 160), when, with a great effort to ignore the noumenon in the midst of phenomena, he says : — " In itself it is of little moment whether we express...Spirit, or the phenomena of Spirit in terms of matter. .... But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be...

...this he returns before the close, with some evidence of keenness of feeling. While he says, that " in itself it is of little moment whether we express...of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter,"J he strenuously urges that all scientific inquiry, whether it concern mental or material existence,...

...spirit are but names for the imaginary substrata of groups of natural phenomena.' ' In itself it is but of little moment whether we express the phenomena...spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter.' 'The extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment...

...to confound matter and mind. Professor Huxley, in his paper on the Physical Basis of Life, says, ' Matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter,' and so hopes to justify in some way his hypothesis of the original evolution of life, and even thought,...