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. The Open Court M]0 XjBjqi-j ,fjjaqM3jy[ A WEEKLY J AV atooj Devoted to the Work of Conciliating Religion ^A^ith Science. Entered at the Chicago Post-Office as Second-Class Matter. -OFFICE, 169—175 LA SALLE STREET.- ( Two Dollars per Year. No. 1 01. Vol. III.— 23. CHICAGO, AUGUST i, i! t Single Copies, 10 cts. CONTENTS THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO CON- FICTION. SCIOUSNESSES OF HYSTERICAL INDIVIDUALS. The Lost Manuscript. (Continued.) Gustav Freytag. 1759 Alfred Binet 1751 POETRY. MONISM AND EVOLUTION. Remarks by the Rev. H. Selections from the German. Mary Morgan {Gowan H. Higgins and Mr, Edward C. Hegeler I754 Lea). THE MODERN FRANKENSTEIN. A Paper read be- Good Deeds. Claudius. fore the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia, To Oneself. Paul Fleming. May 14, 1889. George M. Gould, M. D. (Concluded.). 1754 Farewell, Eichendorff, CORRESPONDENCE. Joy. Schiller, Private Property in Land. Wheelbarrow 1758 NOTES. JUST PUBLISHED! NEW PUBLICATION. PUBLICATIONS OF "THE OPEN COURT." Fundamenta[ProWeins. Three Introductory Lectures Psychic Life of Micro-Organisins A Study in Experimental Psychology The Method of Philosophy as a By ALFRED BINET. The Science ol Thought. Systematic Arrangement of Translated from the French with the Sanction of (First published in The Open Court of June, July, the Author. Treating of the following subjects : Knowledge. and August, 1887.) 1. The Psychology of the Cell—Introductory. By Dr. PAUL CARUS. 2. The Structural and Physiological Character of BY F. MAX MULLER. Proto- Organisms : the Motory and Sensory Organs. Price, One Dollar. 1. The Simplicity of Language; 3. The Psychology of Nutrition : Hohphytic, Sap- To Subscribers of The Open Court, 75 Cents. rophytic, and Animal Nutrition : Predatory Habits 3. The Identity of Language and Thought; and of Certain Anitnalcula. 3. The Simplicity of Thought. No AgnosticisiH but Positive Science, 4. Colonies of Unicellular Organisms. With an No Mysticism but Clear Thought, 5. Fecundation of Proto- Organisms. Appendix which contains a Correspond- Neither Siipernaturalistn nor MateHalism, 6. Fecundation of Higher Animals and Plants. ence on "Thought without Words," between F. Max MQller and Francis Galton, the But a Unitary Conception of the World. 7. The Physiological Function of the Nucleus. Duke of Ar- No Dogma but Religion, 8. Correspondence between Alfred Binet and Ch. gyll, George J. Romanes and Others. Richet (Professor of Physiology in the Faculty of No Creed but Faith. Neatly Bound in Cloth. Price, Medicine at Paris) respecting Cellular Psychology 7/ Cls. NOTICES. PRESS NOTICES. * * * " We like to read much that Dr. Carus has Theldea of God. * * * written on these short studies It is reverent, ele- "The little book will be no less than fasci- nating to all are interested vated, and comprehensive. He is willing for other who in the subject of By Dr. PAUL CARUS. * * * people to think for themselves, and his work is comparative psychology." 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THE OPEN COURT. foot-note page 965); as "man's conception of the world that serves THE OPEN COURT. him as a guiding-star through life" (page 1180).] Morals are man's conduct in so far as it is in unison with the All. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. [The basis of morality is religion. A moral educator or preacher may justly be asked, "On what authority dost thou jus- EDWARD C. HEGELER, President. DR. PAUL CARUS, Edito tify thy precepts?" And he will tell us that his authority is not personal; he speaks in the name of universal order. Accordingly TERMS THROUGHOUT THE POSTAL UNION : his authority is that of religion. If it were not so, all his good $2.00 PER YEAR. $1.00 FOR SIX MONTHS. precepts would have no foundation; they would hover in the air MONTHS. SINGLE COPIES, 10 CTS. $0.50 FOR THREE like beautiful dreams that have no reality.] addressed to All communications should be Ethics is the Science of Morals ; it teaches man why he must, THE OE'DSiT OOXJI^'r, and how he can, regulate his conduct so as to be in unison (Nixon Building, 175 La Salle Street,) with the All. Natural history and the history of mankind prove that here on P. O. DRAWER F. CHICAGO, ILL. earth a constant progress takes place developing ever higher forms DEFINITIONS EXPLANATORY OF THE POSITION OF of existence. "THE OPEN COURT." Morally good are those acts which are in harmony with the All, i. e., those which enhance progress, and morally bad sxs those The Data of experience are perceptions. which are not in harmony with the All, i. e.-, those which retard or Reality is the sum total of all that is. prevent progress. Truth is the conformity of cognition to reality. [Religion (man's aspiration to be in unison with the All) has [Truth being a relation between subject and object appears to naturally produced many superstitious notions in the world, of its relative in its nature. Absolute truth is a self-contradiction; it be origin, and of its purpose. Similarly, science (man's search for imply cognition without a cognizing subject. would truth) has produced many errors or false notions of reality. But the same time it is obvious that absolute existence (in fact At all the superstitions of religion do not prove that religion as such everything absolute) is impossible. Reality is properly called Wirk- is an illusion, and all the errors of science are no evidence that sci- lichkeit in German, derived from wirken, to take effect. Reality is ence as such is a sham. not immovable and unchangeable absoluteness, but the effective- It is obvious that religion and science, as here defined, are not ness of things in their relations. Reality therefore implies not contradictory to, but complementary of, each other. If religion only existence, but the manifestation of existence also. Existence and science do not agree, it is a certain sign that our conception of and its manifestation are not two different things ; both are one. either the one or the other is wrong. The history of the human idea of something absolutely Unknowable is therefore also The mind has been one of constant conflict and reconciliation between untenable ; it would imply the existence of an object whose ex- religion and science. Their relation has repeatedly been disturbed is not manifested i. e. , existence without reality ; Sein istence and re-adjusted. ohne Wirklichkeit which is a contradiction, an impossibility. — ] The unitary conception of the world affords the only basis for the union of Religion and Science, and opens a new vista of pro- Science is the search for truth. gress for both.] The nature of science is the economy of thought. (Mack.) Economy of thought is possible through application of the RECENT CONTENTS OF "THE OPEN COURT." laws of form to thought. Knowledge is the possession of certain truths. THE RISE OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. [Knowledge is, so to say, the present stock or capital with [A masterly sketch of the history of Israel's people in the epoch of national critical truth. which Science works. Science cannot exist without knowledge. organization ; marked by acumen and a love of The author, Prof. Carl Heinrich Cornill, is an orthodox theologian, of KOnigsberg, The object of Science is not only to increase and enlarge knowl- Germany. (Nos. 90, 91, 92.)] edge but also to purify the present stock of knowledge from vague- ness, errors, and misconceptions. THE PHYSICAL BASES OF PERSONALITY. The purpose of knowledge is that of increasing our power over [The second of a series of essays by the eminent French psychologist, Th. RiBOT. Translated with his consent from the " Diseases of Personality. nature.] An important contribution to modern psychology. (No. 93.)] Monism is that philosophy which recognizes the oneness of All- THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS OF PROF. HERTZ. the Religion of teaches existence, and Monism that the individual, (The electrical researches of Prof. Hertz, of Carlsruhe, form one of the most as a part of the whole, has to conform to the cosmical laws of the important contributions to modern science.