The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-02-19
EVoLUTION:
REV, W. II. RIDER, A. M.
Opposite Tes,imony.--Contlnued,
ARTICLE v.

opposite Tesi1m0ny..-COn
ARTICLE v.
4. Correlation of forces. In order tC
support this doctrine, three things mus
be proven. Il The unity of the phys
ical forces (2) The correlation Of th'
physical forces with the vital. (3) Th,
correlation of the physical forces will
the mental Recurring to Spencer's rea
lsoning Bovine says, .Heas is q mode D
motion and mode of force at the sam,
time. Motion produces magnetism
magnetism is motion, magnetism is force
motion is force. The same is said o
light and electricity: both are motions
and both are forces. Yet o universe
definition of force describes it as th,
hidden cause of motion or change =
When pressed for a d.fiaition there i
no scientist who would view them in an,
other relation. To use cause and efiec
as interchangeable and identical involve
a most remarkable confusion of ideas
= = = Heat, light, electricity
etc. are not forces, but modes of mo
ton, any one Of which can produce al
the rest. This passage Of one mode o
motion into another mode is its CORE
lation; but this correlation is correla
ton of motions and not of forces
Whether the hidden force or force
which manifest themselves in those sev
eral modes he one or more, is question
which no experiment can decide II
prove q true correlation of forces
must be shown that the powers which
maintain the chemical molecu!e, an,
those which bind the members OF :h
solar system together are Identical Th
identity Of cohesion. and chemical al
finity, and the force of gravitation, mus
he estsblished--a thing which no on
has DONE" Philos. of Herbert Spen
Ger. PIP. 81, 80
Should We admit this identity of th
physical forces, a greater task would b
to prove their correlation with the vita
Spencer undertakes it, Plant life is d.
pendent upon sunshine, and animal lii
dependent upon plant life; hence plar
life, dnimal life, and snnshine are ider
lticai.
{l).While wiling to admit that tn
sun, rain. and soil, are necessary cond
tions of vegetation, We siill adhefe /
the life principle as distioct The veg
etable food OF the animal is necessar
condition of life, but the life principle
distinct
(2) The manifestation Of the life
4ptiRciple in organic compounds make
+ them. so radically different in many. re
\ s ]ecss nom f.lr nlosg gAuic eiat We Cot
clude the life-principle is not a func,io
OF matter.
3) The organic compound change
Its composition, maintaining its identit,
but the inorganic remains unchanged.
4) The organic compound will dis
integrate without the life-principle, show
ing the organizing power to have bee
life; while inorganic conpounds grow
ing By accretion present no such ph,
nomena.
i (5) Certain chemical elements prt
duce certain compounds, but the sam
elements administered to different form
of life produce birds, fishes, insect
4 man. Therefore there must be som,
thing more about groth than mere chen
ical affinity.
/ {6) Death causes Reorganization, an
| having all the chemical elements the O
ganic compound cannot be revivifed.
| (D Why do the four princip
elements of animals and plants (carbol
:. hydrogen, nitrogen, oxigen), differ 8
much in their phenomenal appearance
/ in the stone, the fsh, the tree, the man
No answer being given, we propose tt
name Of God as the wonder worker.
Ignoring the source of the impregn.
ton of the seed the correlationist say
molecular combinations produce life
The above facts disprove it, and subst
tute therefor this adamantine nropos
ton: LIFE PRODUCES LIFE
Thus the correlationist is baffled {
:. seeing the bridgeless gulf between Ii
and no life. Still another task is befol
him: to prove the correlation OF I'll
physical forces with the mental.
!. would say that all mental states are e,
cited by physical states, and thereto
!. are identical We concede that soK
mental states are excited by some ply
,. ical states, but the consequent identi
is unwarranted. There is no reason
saying that because mental states are 9
tended by certain physical condition
they are identical. The defects of Il
doctrine are thus pointed out by Bown
sin the first place the doctrine does n
explain why even sensation is imposl
BILE without an inner activity of the sol
In the next place, it gives no account
the great majority of our mental stat
S which have no physical antecedent
also denies the possibility of self-dete
mination which is one of the most 8
|. surei facts of consciousness and fin,
ly, il contradicts the emphatic distir
ton which the soul makes between its,
and the organism which it inhabits" ;"
Philos. of Herbert Spencer, p. Ill, B
what sense is there in talking about for
in connection with mind1 Technical
this is violation of the nomenclaLu
T. of mind The terms force, resistent
etc :, belong to Mechanics, and the teri
= will, volition, etc, ought to be appli
to the mind. But they have so crush
the nomenclature of the mind in bli
pursuit of matter, that according to th
d terminologv evolutionists have no sol
is -automatons as Huxley really affirm
isl 5 Darwins' Natural Selection" a
! Spencers' "Survival of The Fittest," q
Je doctrines about which nothing especi
0' ly need be said. These are not the ide
which we wish to combat Howev
there is hope for the evo.utionists wh
they suppose the surviving always to
new species, and when they only allt
th .se to live sufficiently long to prof.
gate still another and new order. IT
doctrine keeps the monkey trotti
down the ages with accelerated speed.
6. How are matter and mind presel
ed and what Of the future dissoluti
of the world2 Answer, according
the zigzag or parallel molecular mo,
ment II the former, dissolution; If t
latter, eternal preservation. They ca
not tell how the atoms are moving a
70 hence no light on the subject.
7. Something was said resppcfino I