CHAPTER II.

POSITION TAKEN BY THE AUTHORS—PHYSICAL AXIOMS.

Class of readers to whom the Authors appeal, 50-53 69

_Position assumed by the Authors_— Laws of the universe defined, 54 72 Embodiment of some sort essential, 55 73 Materialistic position described, 55 74 Unjustifiable assumptions of materialists, 56-58 74 Intimacy of connection between mind and matter, 59 77

_Essential requisites for continued existence_— An organ of memory, 60 78 Possibility of action in the present, 61 78

_Principle of Continuity_— Illustrated by reference to astronomy, 62-75 79 Breach of the principle illustrated, 76 87 Extension to other faculties of man, 77 88

_Application of this principle to Christian miracles_— Erroneous position of old divines, 78 89 Such opposed to the genius of Christianity, 79 90 New method of explanation, 80-82 90

_Application of this principle to the doctrines of the extreme scientific school_— The visible universe will probably come to an end in transformable energy, 83-84 92 It must have been developed out of the invisible, 85 94

THE UNIVERSE,— 86 95 Similar errors committed by the extreme schools of theology and science, 87 96

_Application of this principle to Immortality_— Three conceivable suppositions, 88 96 These reduced to two, 89 97 Future course of our argument, 90 97 The problem may be profitably discussed, 91 98