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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 26. 1912. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 17, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1035.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 26. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1035

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 26, 1912, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 17, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1035.

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Title	Why I left the church
Series Title	Pamphlets for the million; no. 1
Creator (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Contributor (LCNAF)	Rationalist Press Association
Publisher	Watts & Company
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1912
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Catholic ex-priests Personal narratives
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	46 pages; 19 cm.
Original Item Location	BX4668.3.M33A3 1912
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304505~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 26
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_025.jpg
Transcript	26 WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH Plants were credited with an immaterial principle —a "soul," as they did not hesitate to call it—because their properties were very different from those of ordinary matter; the possibility of material forces producing widely different results when they enter into certain highly complex combinations came to be recognised as vegetable physiology and chemistry progressed. The principle of the argument was unsound; ammonia has properties remarkably different from those of hydrogen and nitrogen, yet none will say (except a few Catholic philosophers) that a new principle must be introduced to explain the new properties, when hydrogen and nitrogen unite, and ammonia is formed. So also from the different properties of the plant, its vital activities, it was evidently illogical to demand the admission of an immaterial source for them. Now, the difficulty is that the argument for an immaterial principle in the "lower" animals is precisely of the same character. The vital forces in animals are very different from ordinary material forces; hence it is inferred that they are not material forces—they are the manifestation of an immaterial principle. But mere difference of properties does not suffice, as is proved from the earlier controversy. What degree of difference is necessary before we are logically justified in introducing a new principle? In the former case the philosopher's inference was merely founded upon the temporary imperfection of physical science. Now, biological science is making rapir1 progress; how do you know it will not undermine your position here also ? Can any definite criterion of the immaterial be posited,