And when the positive school say that they reject neither of these, what they really mean to say is that as to the second they neither dare openly do one thing or the other--to deny it or accept it, but that they remain like an awkward child when offered some more pudding, blushing and looking down, and utterly unable to say either yes or no.
Now the question to ask the positive school is this.

Why are they in this state of suspense?
'_There is an iron strength in the logic_,' as Dr.Tyndall himself says, that rejects the second order altogether.

The hypothesis of its existence explains no fact of observation.

The scheme of nature, if it cannot be wholly explained without it, can, at any rate, be explained better without it than with it.

Indeed from the standpoint of the thinker who holds that all that is is matter, it seems a thing too superfluous, too unmeaning, to be even worth denial.