“PARACELSUS, the first materialist, proclaimed man to be a chemical compound” (NATURE, Jan. 7, p. 14). No doubt Dr. Fournier d'Albe can give references to confirm this statement. In the meantime may I ...

I may not be the first to have observed this, but it seems to me that many materialists are working with at least one fundamental dogma in tow: anything is more probable than God. Two observations ...