cause which it is the privilege of Monism to abolish. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 13: 'Whatsoever is first of all things must necessarily contain it, and actually have, at least, all the perfections that can ever after exist; nor can it ever give to another any perfection that it hath not actually in itself, or at least in a higher degree' (Locke). To this argument Mill answers, 'How vastly nobler and more precious, for instance, are the vegetables and animals than the soil and manure out of which, and by the properties of which, they are raised up! But this stricture is not worthy of Mill. The soil and manure do not constitute the whole cause of the plants and animals. We must trace these and many other con-causes (conditions) back and back till we come to 'whatsoever is first of all things': it is merely childish to choose some few of the conditions, and arbitrarily to regard them as alone the efficient causes.] [Footnote 14: _Collected Essays_, vol. ix. 'Evolution and Ethics,' p. 140.] * * * * * +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: In this text this H_2O represents a subscript 2| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * Oxford HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY End of Project Gutenberg's Mind and Motion and Monism, by George John Romanes