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to crush all such materialism as this. Those, however, who framed these definitions of matter were but partial students. They were biologists;......their science
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was mechanical science, not the science of life...............Let us reverently, look the question in the face. Divorced from matter, where is life? Whatever our faith may say, our knowledge shows them to be indissolubly joined. Every meal we eat and every cup we drink, illustrates the mysterious control of the mind by matter."
CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
Unfortunately Tyndall only knew of the current contemporary misconceptions about the soul; he did not know that no unredeemed soul was free from the companionship of matter or immune from its influence, and that Redeemed souls were altogether out-side the reach of modern science, having entered nirvana of which it had no notion whatsoever. Therefore, it never occurred to Tyndall or any one else of the scientific fraternity in Europe before or after him that the association of the mind and matter was not, in any sense. an argument, much less a conclusive argument, against the existence of the soul. For the dependence of consciousness on the development of the brain might be explained not only on the supposition that it is secreted or otherwise produced by the brain, but in other ways besides. The brain may have not necessarily a productive function with respect to consciousness, but of a different kind, eg, a transmissive one, as Prof. William James, the famous psychologist, points out. These different pos5
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