[171] Sir Isaac Newton entertained a similar opinion. "We may be able," he said, "to form some rude conception of the creation of matter, if we suppose that God by his power had prevented the entrance of any thing into a certain portion of pure space which is of its nature penetrable,... from henceforward this portion of space will be endowed with impenetrability, one of the essential qualities of matter; and as pure space is absolutely uniform, we have only to suppose that God communicated the same impenetrability to another portion of space, and we should obtain in a certain sort the notion of mobility, another quality which is essential to matter."—M. Coste, Note in the 4th Edition of his "French Translation of Locke's Essay." (M. Coste reports the above from Newton's lips.)
[172] Prof. Maxwell, in Nature, vol. ii. p. 219.
[173] M. Claude Bernard, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1867.
[174] "Dissertation on the Study of Natural Philosophy," § 28.
[175] Prof. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., "Lecture delivered before the British Association at Bradford," in Nature, vol. viii. p. 441.
[176] Müller, "Christian Doctrine of Sin," vol. i. p. 28.
[177] "Logic," vol. ii. p. 527, 4th edition.
[178] "Mind and Brain," vol. i. pp. 107-8.
[179] "Mind and Brain," vol. i. p. 261.
[180] Nature, vol. iv. p. 270.