Religion As Affected By Modern Materialism An Address Delivered in Manchester
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' • That is not enough/ he replies ; ' it might do for Democritus and the mathematicians, but I must have somewhat more : the atoms must be not only in motion and of various shapes, but also of as many kinds as there may be chemical elements ; for how could I ever get water, if I had only hydrogen molecules to work with V ' So be it/ we shall say ; ' only this is a considerable en- largement of your specified datum, — in fact, a conversion of it into several ; yet, even at the cost of its monis...m, your scheme seems hardly to gain its end ; for by what manipu- lation of your resources will you, for example, educe con- sciousness? No organism can ever show you more than matter moved ; and, as Dubois-Eeymond observes, there is an impassable chasm " between definite movements of 13 definite cerebral atoms and the primary facts which I can neither define nor deny, — / feel pain or pleasure, I taste a svjeetness, smell a rose-scent, hear an organ tone, see red, together with the no less immediate assurance they give, therefore I exist : " " it remains, " he adds, " entirely and for ever inconceivable that it should signify a jot to a number of carbon and hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen and other atoms how they lie and move ;" " in no way can one see how from their concurrence consciousness can arise.
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