Once let us deny even in the most qualified way that the mind in the most absolute way is a material machine, an automaton, and in that denial we are affirming a second and immaterial universe, independent of the material, and obeying different laws.

But of this universe, if it exists, no natural proof can be given, because _ex hypothesi_ it lies quite beyond the region of nature.
One theory then of man's life is that it is a union of two orders of things; another, that it is single, and belongs to only one.

And of these theories--opposite, and mutually exclusive, Dr.Tyndall, and modern positivism with him, says '_I reject neither_.'[35] Now this statement of their position, if taken as they state it, is of course nonsense.

It is impossible to consider matter as '_that mysterious something by which all that is is accomplished;_' and then to solve the one chief riddle of things by a second mysterious something that is not material.

Nor can we '_reject_,' as the positivists say they do, an '_outside builder_' of the world, and then claim the assistance of an _outside_ orderer of the brain.