, 1879-02-08

ah! I''a 'iforu'nale FAnttTs ont he toes nnt 10
Justice 10 hs Industry, sill a',tl Independence.
which III great things was In striktng contrast
IL his atfcciatlnn aud prctense In small
things: It Is worth knowing that Hume had
"a guido conceit OF hmscff," AMI thai "hc hsl
cess" but should have been shown more clearly
that c had ;" tic outrage Of ms convictions
at time when sceplcisn, in England Was much
more Of an o!fcnsc than At nrcscut:.
Even in tie biographical raEt q The volume
given amount OF Hume. We nro told what
Prof. Huxley considers to ha tic danger to
true rsnson for doubling The permsnency OF
Republics, an'i why, In hts opinion, !l'cra Is no
rcas"n tllat any Eet'crfc type should die out.
INT Il !: orIy alter le has lstt ull
m W eyatrina,ion Of llumc's Philosophy Tint Prof.
Huxley gives himself full swing. The ecrond
part nf tI'c hook extends over more than I50
pages, or thscetluartcrs OF Tie whole. In It
nf ,he mind In opposition to HAT OF Hume. iIo
divides tlle "eengrspl,v Of tile mind v into two
territories. called respectively Impressions and
tleas. Under tic head Of Impressions he
md CD fclaltons; a,'I tic Ideas bc calls simply
the foreeetnE: I!s g., then discusses II
81 sena 's5
Phenomena Of Animals, and t!lc scarcely FORM
nIaecd sccnee Of Comparative Psychology;
.Langnace-Proaos!tlons Concerning Necessary
,.mME,o.on fa.s t5 Il .! To'osy vao~nS.
erty mil Necessit5f', aiiI '"rhc Principle OF
Morals" All tlesc tuplcs arc written Of in clear
conciset AMI attractive manner. There can
nsysf nsaus b. any a sg spae eaa nS reey eG 1sT. oc
doubt that tn cact case he l1as
;ss;s ;sksn ~. np .. ,he ,s strongest % p9''Ina
chapter on miracles will show perhaps better
fhOf 1lGr hnW n AfV ha hpn prnftrtl
by sfle cxpcrlenc. VI other sc!eHtac men III
pofemtcs hluce uu4as'a famous essay WAS writ
ten, Huxley ab: n''e' at orec fe'c rositlon aat
and therefore could not be. \ miracle, he saws,
Is only a wonder; AMI Whatever happens
whether wonderful or not, tnust f,appeu In
accordance with natural laws. Tie renl qnes-
tion In tho case of miracles IL not whether
they arc natural or not, but whether the wor-
dcrfut things said 10 have happened really did
happen, The canon here, which Is 1lumc's ns
we'll "a l1uxier's, Is: The .nore statsmcnt Of
fncts conflicts with previous .experienee, tile
more cu1,nlrsc must l,c tue cvit1cncr which is to
justify ,ls In i,ervtng IL. III thu cnsu .! man
raised frma the tca,l y wttl not be sufficient
inerciy to take bis Testimony and tllai of his
tlead,-ihat his temperature was below II certain
point. uni il'al the cadavcric stisfcning IT
hts muscles was we'll established.
state IL" ni;,ount and Kind of evidence tl,at
would be required to make him helIevo that
somebody had seen zcbrn ~ peadIlly or
that Hive ccntaur wns still tu existence. But
VIC haye not spacu TO follow this matter further,
nor to results tue Interesting discussion con:
ccrning the soul and immortality, volttton unll
teccssltr, whtc, is here carried on. The bent Of
lro'. Huxloy Is, OF coursc, strongly In the
direction OF matcrialism, atheism tnot
sense) sense md md usi'tartanisrn. In morals,
however, be stops tas short Of the advanced po-
etion taken w BY 1scntham unu Ills school. liz
In m intuitonnt Haoratist, md IN this respect
strangely strikcs tIantls with somc OF tie most
c1tFcsle CatEtulsts, though only for partial
ai,d scpporury agreement. "The moral law"
he says, "Ifka The laws Of physical nature, rests
In th long run upon tnstInct,ve lntuitiuHs, nsnl
Is neither more n"r less inmate and 'ncccssa-
~ tlnn they nre. So:1c people cRl,not BY auy
means be got to undcrstas'd i,le first bouk or
Eucltl; but the truths Of mathematics arc 10
tass necessary aMt binding Oil the great
mass OF mankind. SONG there are who cntinot
feel tile difference between the So,latd Apls1si-
rutter's cherlib aid the Apollo Belvetcrr; hut
tue ca10ns OF nrt afe none the less ackuow-
c.!Tel. While so1ne there may be who, devoid
Of sympathy, arr incapable ot 4 sense Of duty;
but neither docs their e1latence Affect tlf,
dcyiations from truc manhood arc merely tho
halt, tho latae, AM! the blind Of the world OF
consciousness; nn.l the anntopEst Of tho nItna
leaves tilrn aaldc rs the annt6hllst OF the body
would iGlurt nbnornlnl spccamens."
l'rof lIuxsry's writing never wants ygor and
Discrimination; asIti the present volume il mora
than usually remarkable for tllesc qualities. 1t
sta,es the mattrlalIattc philosophy rlainly,
auc| ylcws, easily accessible md made with aa-
thoftty, 1t Will ot sought no ess for purposes vi
attnck than fur rcintorrcs:ent Of old beliefs.
{" David Ilutrc." by Prof. lluxloy. Engltsl,
stcn of Letters Series. New York: uarper Il
Bros. Price, II cents,)