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tion as to the origin of conscionsness for which reason Huxley aptly remarks in his ‘Physical Basis of Life,' "'I individually am no Admissions
by Huxley, materealist ; but on the other hand I believe Spencer and materialism to involve grave philosophical errors.” “Anti-materialistic", writes Spencer in his Essays, "my own view is * # # I agree entirely with Mr. Martineau in repudiating the materialistic interpretation as utterly futile.” Darwin enquires, "Is there a factor a shadow of fact supporting the belief that these elements acted on only by known forces could produce living existence? At present it is to us absolutely inconceivable.”
Such and similar other passages might be gleaned in numbers from the pages of the works of other scientific minds of position and authority to show that materialism fails to dive deep into the metaphysics of things and fathom the underlying mysteries, unless it admits of the existence of a super-physical principle by the virtue of which the atoms and molecules combine and work, according to the inviolable law of karma, so as to present to us the bewildering phenomenal
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