Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-10

years ldIcT ne DuDllSuGu Il SSCOhu Oui-
ton, which was largely a recantation
of the first. In the preface Wundt
speaks of the fundamental errors of
the first edition and says that he
learned many years ago to consider
the work a sin of his youth; 1t
weighed on him as kind of crime
from which he longed to free himself
as soon as possible Haeckel says OF
it: In the first edition he (Wundt)
is purely monistic and materialistic
in the second edition purely dualistic
and spritualistic.' When the Riddle
of the Universe was written George
Romanes was still supposed to be
faithful and was highly applauded
but in the Wonders of Life Haeckel
admits that he also was very far gone
from original monistic righteousness
and had even adopted mystic relig
ious views
But none of these things move the
professor, or seem to awaken the
slightest doubt on his part of the
soundness of his own positions. On
the contrary he stands like Abdiel
faithful among the faithless,' and
ready to challenge the four corners
of the intellectual world to dispute his
views. He finds a charitable excuse
| for these defections. Men are subject
| to psychological metamorphoses' with
advancing years. The experiences OF
later years sometimes have the eff
feet, not of enriching, but of disturb
ing the mind, and with old age there
comes a gradual decay of the brain
,.N !, - Ah1r.
1t was such a 'metamorphosis' that
| turned the critical Kant of the Crit
ique of the Pure Reason into the dog
matte Kant of the Practical Reason,
and led him to proclaim the three
great Authorizations of God, freedom
and immortality to be indispensable
practical postulates in life. 1t was a
similar metamorphosis that trans
formed the Virchow of the Collected
Essays on Scientific Medicine into
the Virchow of the famous address on
The Liberty of Science in Modern
States Similarly with Wundt and
many others. In Romanes' case the
matter was further complicated by
illness and grief at the loss of friends
in which condition of extreme depres
SlOll anu ne lSll uuuSl
mystic influences which promised him
rest and hope by belief in the super
natural But in all of these cases il
is pointed out the earlier views have
far greater probability. For the at
tainment of truth the organ of the
mind, the phronema, must be in a
normal condition. while it is well
known that deep emotional disturb
ance and painful experiences often
distort the judgment and cloud the
pure light of reason. Thus the pro
fessor keeps on good terms with him
self while exercising charity toward
those who differ. 1t may be added
that he shows no signs of coming
psychological metamorphosis' in his
own case"
But the fact is, Professor Bovine as
serts, that these so-called "psycholog
ical metamorphoses" of other scien
tific men are simply indications OF
the march of science, which has
moved away from Haeckel without
his realization of that fact. Science
Professor Bovine thinks, is now sim
ply descriptive; it has turned over to
philosophy the business of casual ex
PLANTATION, and philosophy is realizing
that such explanation cannot be made
ION any mechanical and impersonaI
plane" In other words, if we are to
credit the author of ASPECTS of The
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