...and conditions that are the same from eternity to eternity.2 The advance of science has involved " the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation " s to the sphere of moral sciences. In its application to ethics the physical method has three leading...

...philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...its progress has, in all ages, meant, and now more that ever means, the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant...

...immense convenience in physical studies of using the materialistic terminology, and proclaims the " gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity." In all this we need, perhaps, see no more than the desire to keep the fields of human thought free...

...Materialist, malgrd moi, arises out of a passage which he quotes, in which I say that the progress of science means the extension of the province of what we call matter and force, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit...

...phenomena they are commonly supposed to modify, I am unable to see with Mr Huxley that this justifies " the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity ; " for by " spontaneity " I suppose he means acts which, when regarded as morally referable to an...

...if, as Huxley has said, the progress of science has in all ages meant, and now means more than ever, the extension of the province of what we call matter...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity, this expulsion of freedom and spontaneity, than which man has no more priceless powers, only shows...

...phenomena they are commonly supposed to modify, I am unable to see with Mr Huxley that this justifies " the gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity ; " for by " spontaneity " I suppose he means acts which, when regarded as morally referable to an...

...philosophical impossibility to demonstrate that any given phenomenon is not the effect of a material cause, any one who is acquainted with the history of science...human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity. sition of material molecules, and the old notion of an Archaeus governing and directing blind matter...

...When Mr. Huxley says that " the progress of science has in all ages meant and now means more than ever the extension of the province of what we call matter...regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity,"1 he makes a statement which probably expresses the bent of his own mind, but which does...

...very eminent witness. " Any one who is acquainted with the history of science," says Professor Huxley, "will admit, that its progress has, in all ages, meant,...the province of what we call matter and causation, j and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and...