Professor Tyndall's article on Materialism and its opponents, in the Fortnightly review / introductory address of the President, Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Cox, Edward W. (Edward William), 1809-1879.
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1875
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Credit: Professor Tyndall's article on Materialism and its opponents, in the Fortnightly review / introductory address of the President, Mr. Serjeant Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THURSDAY. DEO. 2, 1875. SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION: Professor Tyndall’s article on Materialism and its Opponents, in the “Fortnightly Review.” Introductory Address of the President, Mr. Serjeant Cox. You have been invited to night to perform the most important duty of a Society formed for the scientific investigation of so much of the Mechanism of Man as relates to the forces by which that mechanism is moved and directed Psychology as a science is based upon the assump- i°n t^t Mau 18 not who% material—that he is something more than the molecular body. This assumption has been directly challenged by one of the very foremost of our Scientists m a paper which has caused a great sensation in or d, and m which he answers the opponents of matt Sm,fWi mamfcains that there is nothing but matter, or at least that nothing but matter is 0r can be nown to us, and consequently that Soul or Spirit-call 11 Wh,Ch ^ you will ia only a [99]