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Title: Biology, with preludes on current events
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901
Subjects: Biology Evolution Religion and science
Publisher: Boston J.R. Osgood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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, in the name of theaxiom that every change must have a sufficient cause,would thus and thus (tearing the paper) tear intoshreds the materialistic or mechanical theory of theorigin of living tissues and of the soul. (Applause.) VI. LIFE, OR MECHANISM,-WHICH? THE FIFTY-FIRST LECTUKE IN THE BOSTON MOXDATLECTURESHIP, DELIVERED IN THE PARK-STREET CHURCH NOV. 6. Tu cuncta supemoDucis ab exemplo, pulchrum pulclierimus ipseMundum mente gerens, siinilique imagine fonnans. BoETHius, De ComoL, 9. * What time this worlds great workmaister did castTo make all things such as we now behold,It seems that He before His eyes had plastA goodly patterne, to whose perfect mouldHe fashioned them as comely as He could,That now so fair and seemly they appear;As naught may be amended anywhere. That wondrous patterne, wheresoeer it be,Whether in Earth, laid up in secret store,Or else in Heaven, that no man may it seeWith sinful eyes, for fear it to defiore,Is perfect beauty. — Spenseb. . .-1 s: s £ 5 s: 3)
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VI. LIFE, OR MECHANISM —WmCH? One day the poet Goethe, when in his advancedage, was riding home to Weimar with his friend Eck-ermann, and conversing on the immortality of thesoul. They turned by Tiefurt into the Weimar road,and stopped at a spot, where, like other travellers, Ihave often meditated on Goethes career; and theyhad from that outlook a majestic view of the settingsun. The great poet and philosopher remained formany minutes in perfect silence, and at last saidwith mystic but tremorless emphasis, Untergehendsogar isfs immer dieselbige Sonne. Setting, neverthe-less the sun is always the same sun. I am fullyconvinced that our spirit is a being of a nature quiteindestructible, and that its activity continues frometernity to eternity. This man knew all philoso-pliies and all art — materialism, realism, pantheism,the wildest scepticism, and, I fear, not a little of themost infamous sensualism; but his was at least a freemind and a modern one. Here, however, was hisconclusion

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