New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-28
MATERIfLISA
4 lrcTuRE ny DR.. M'CosH

LECTURE IN Dlt. NJ tDShs
Tho Rev. DR. McCoSh delivered thc seventh
lecture Of the course on Natural Religion tnd poioge
ics % the Nadisonaye Presby Church last even
ing In my last lecture said he reviewed the progress
II free thought in this country and showed Low II was
declining into Positivs but II VIII yet assume another
form-that ot Materialism our youDg men have come
u dees the priOri philosophy OF the last a,e,aid
there ia n Widespread idea that all philosophy Is mere
cymnastc exercise Of the faculties and cannot reveal
truth Thus they who havo been cheated by those Who
promised everything and gave nothing are ready TO
accent anything stil II we would not nave uniformed
minds We must diversity collegiate studies, and In med
cal ard other scientific schools branches should De m
troduced that would remind the students that they have
sous-a fact they are apt forget There - s1ch
thing A. the split Of the time anil there susceptible
youth who will catch this spirit astiu lake rejects the
clouds and viii become spenceriies, or even HuHeii,S
Nfatoralisrn was prevailing philosophy under Louis
Napoleon and suited the deimOnde VINO gave tone TO
society and fastened tho national downfall The ten
dCncy toward matefalisn In this country must De met
and IN meeting H. II may allowed that there
tain relation between mind and body Thus we md IN
the bodies Of animals automatic system by which IN
voluntary motion is produced In prckine tho leg Of
the frog that member II drawn up through thai ~ stem
altI0uch the animal docs not ite. me PAIN me dp
paritus boy which thi- Il produced + purt
| organic. Then there II me s!-swl U.ot'f, VIZ"
| there is Involuntary motion, accomplished ny sen
| sat{on. rs iT coughing or snce Ing. The came
effect II seen when the eye Closes uid'I -u"He MN,
wren cry ont ~ the nilictou ~ sudden pam IN ING
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have no feeling and cannot OF themselves produce mo.
ton. Itmay be further allowed tnlt there is general
and me power Of the intellect Gut in this connection
between mimi and natter p s..ntJ ca o"ndu, rs no
problem Of the connection OF mind aud body is as H.
soluble now as It was IN pic-scentic times a.. -.
We will now proceed 10 consider some Of the forms
which fatcraisn has assumed of late years. Aud hrst
the grSe e igr as the Se
Among those holding TINS theory. HuCLufF hiH Nflttr
A. Length. aten ming 10 prove that the soul is the
/ of
engine produces motion Then writers assert INA spirit
/. rrodiicfd Ike the breath So long s the lungs act and
ceases 10 be- when they have ceae ed 90 act This Is Illus
tr,trd b the SAVING of the -Ouic A4rJbrau, D"1t
an eternal slerp" The answer 30 tins theory =. that
Ne can see now the liver produces bile ont of The matter
brought into contact with IT, bot when that soft pdpy
substance, the brain, produces thought surely 10 must
/ brain have been compared by this school 10 the
production ~ music by the organ "hat tc dit'r pro-
duccs simply orderly moton-a vibration Of wires
producing vibration IN me ai--hut THIS does not prove
that the brain can produce thought Dr Mar'le), an
English phySG8n, advances more refined theory. Hc
admits that physiology has not yet produced mental
science, but asserts that our Is utcep
tive. This statement. however proceeds on msapprr
henson. SeftcCnsconshcss tahes coehIance OF uIpEN
within not OF things without On one point conscious
ness speaks positively IL declares that man = per
person nov / was yesterday aud have been as long
memory goes back DT. haIsl5y aiso OPPOSES inc DOC
| opposing an ntuitiye conviction Of the mind.
We now turn 10 a higher school who wall not auoW
themselves be called materal-ts Matter they say Il
something Vastly hgnef tLaI u y keurIdy etIln''u ="
be admit freely that matter Is not that inert sub
wood stone there n constant activity ia the par
tcles composing IT, as IN room every chang' Ot ten
affects object within u. rt there II
proof that thinking writing, are prOperte. OF matter
IL makes difference how We spritudze matter II u
not mind. These theorists would mako man
mere thTob In the puIss OF life mere bubble
on the stream ~ time. Huxley asserts that he *
Ngteralist. he does not believe either m mind or
matter SUCH hut is simply Humeist, though unlike
Hume he a Materialstlc terminOOgy. Every at
tempt ocalize the different faculties N different parts
OF tine BRAIN 10 them With certain nerves has
failed.
Aurr this critical essay am prepared 10 lay down
few propOstOns Fir9'. That there IS sefCOnsc'Ouk
ness OF the unity and personality Of the mind |
believe and must over believe, tnat nave an mol
yidu.lty different from hill tree, and also
from nv own body Second The mind follows laws OF
a. fixed Even the laws that govern the association ~
ideas arr than bodily laws and also those that
Rnide u making comparisons. Third The mind can
rot he shown be ~ the correlated physical forces
This then, Is a mechanical equivalent FOR neat; but
even IN there were FOR mind. have means of
proving II. We can measure uo~ OUT NOT lhousn' hor
Will. ~, -
The speaker here dWelt on the experiments OF the
American Barker Ia tins that mental force Is
one of the correlated forces. and exposed the faaces
underlying al. Interpretation Of the facts cited am in
clinad to admit said ne, that without physical force
distributed ia the brain the mind viii not
work as water-mill will not run without
water and when this force u exhausted the mind
T. HELPLESS for time. The haterialistr assert
that wien man dies the mind ceases 10 exist, but can
tell them that goes npWard Co God. IL IS universal
Law of Nature and Of grace that nothing dies, though
everything changes
The Lecturer here announced That the subject OF
CHRISTIANITY would he considered ia the remaining lee
tre. and that next week Remains Life Of Jesus" would
be mad. the subject OF . critical review.