, 1877-12-28
REV. JOSEPH COOK ON CONSCIENCE.

Cooks famous metaphysical lectures
now in process OF delivery at Boston,
Mass. In the discourse from which
we clip, Matthew hrnold's views on
conscience are taken rs the subject,
and discussed with ability second to
none in the literary aud scientific
world to day. These lectures are
considered the very best, logically
supported arguments, against all
forms of skepticism, now. in exis
tence: "a |' V''AAA ~ f.t-N :.
If you will not examine self.evi
dent truths AS a science, must
ask YOU to take the noint of view of
the microscope. Here is another
line of thought proceeding out OF the
very heart of Biology: kaSb y q
/. Some force forms the parts in
an embryo. "W-art,'wovr,'," even.
Tyndall says, Shy power not our
selves"
On the first of October, at the
Midland Institute Prnfessr rvndall
gave to the world knowledge of a
secret which most scholars have un-
derstood for ten years. Laughter.
At the Midland Institute, lnthit city
of Birmingham, which is SO well
known to you, sir, (turtring to the
Rev. DIR. Dale of England Profes-
sor Tyndall said to the rubber, the
ravisher and murder, "You offend
because you cannot help offending"
(Report in London . Times" of Tyn-
doll's Lecture Of O'tnher lst.)
Haeckel, the master Of both Tyndall
and Huxley. atiirn-d yea ago, in
his History of creation. vol l,p. 800
that " the will is never free" Some
of you have thoug ht 1t rxtravagent
to assert that this same. teaching lies
betweeen the lines of many page
published by the English Materials
tic school. Haeckel is FAR bolder
man than any Of his followers, and
he has proclaimed pointedly dhat the
will is never free; and nov TyndaII
does the same. With much grace,
with high literary ability, and with
all the prestige of his great name,
Professor Tyndal! SAYS TO the mur
derer: "You offend because you
cannot help offending; we punish
YOU because we cannot help punish
ing" Appreciation and 'isapproba-
zion he would no more have as to the
overflow of the muddy torrent we
call an Iago or Mephistopheles,
than he would Tor the overflow OF the
Rhine or the Mississippi. Accord
ing to his scheme of thought we may
put up dykes against Calignla and
Nero, as we do against the Mlsslssip-
pi, but we are not to have disappro-
baton for Caligula, or for Nero, or
for Catiline, any more than for the
Tiber when it oVcrilows its banks
into the marble temples of Rome.
We must say to the criminal, " You
offend because you cannot help Of
Tending" These are TyndalIs own
words which Hermann Lotze would
think hardly worthy Of reply.
They are not more penetraringiy
mischievous than violantIy unscienti-
hc.
But even Tyndall asserts that we
are woven by something not our
selves. Lecture at Birmingham.
October 1. Nov, affirm, that when
the embryo comes into existence,
some force forms its parts. The
force thas forms the part - tho cause
Of the form Of the parts. The cause
must exist before the effect. We
are sure of that; are we notg NY
delicious and surprising friends, who
are sure of nothing, except that you
are sure you are sure oi nothing
thereby couiradictiug yourselves,
Ilaughtefl are you not certain that
cause mast eIist before a change oai 4
be prUduesdf Very welli here
stand With the process ~ she ~eRv-
ing OF a physical otSanism gong on
under my aierOscope Herr is wo-
ven lion. there a man; heFs 80 oak,
there "a palm. FROM the brat the plsn /
Of each Is IN the embryo from which .
each begins. That plan musi have
been in existence before any physical
organization exists in the embryo
Even your Ilackel Gays 4" Pop. SCI. I
snce Monthly, Oct. 1857, sfl'eis on
Bathybius, %. C52l that " life is not