G.—Mr. J. S. Mill as an Independent Moralist.
Additions to Corollary.
Note H.—Archebiosis, or Spontaneous Generation. I.—On Materialism.
CHAPTER III.
CONDITIONS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.
Is the great Book of Nature—the world we live in—a closed or open book to Man? On this question all have thought often,—and many have written much,—students—men of science—religious teachers—poets, and philosophers.
We ask this question of ourselves variously circumstanced, and under various impulses. We ask it if, like Æschylus' watchman, we contemplate
"The congress of the nightly stars