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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 27. 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/1036.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 27. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1036

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 27, 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/1036.

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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 27
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_026.jpg
Transcript	T WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH 27 or must we retreat step by step as the biologist advances, at each step betraying the weakness of our logic? Remember that the last step is the spirituality of the human soul. For many years it seemed to me that such a criterion was available. The properties of mind are very different from those of matter. If we are logical, and if we remember a little controversial history, we shall not infer forthwith that mind must be the manifestation of spirit, not an outgrowth of matter. But if we can show that the properties of mind are not merely different, but contradictory. entirely opposed to those of matter, we may defy the progress of the Materialist. No addition of nonentities will produce a being (except in the brain of a Hegel), no multiplication of ciphers will give a number. Now, consciousness itself is not a phenomenon of this character. There is, indeed, a vast gulf between the movements of the molecules of the brain and the states of consciousness which accompany them; but we have no satisfactory reason for asserting that the gulf will never be traversed. No Theist will deny that matter could have been endowed with consciousness, like Leibnitz's monads, if the Creator so willed—in point of fact, unorganised matter is not; but it is strange to infer that, therefore, organised matter cannot be the subject of consciousness. When the new science of psycho-physics has pursued its investigations into the relation between cerebral changes and states of consciousness for a considerable time, and when the comparative anatomy of the nervous system has made equal progress, perhaps the problem will \