ABSTRACT
Friedenthal expressed a wish to distinguish clearly the realms of the natural and intellectual sciences respectively. He declared the former to be concerned with processes of motion, and the latter with conceptions and ideals. In dealing with the natural sciences, he said, the scientist was free and unfettered, and could establish his results regardless of historical evolution and of dogmas. Dr. Friedenthal considered that Father Wasmann had been illogical. Dr. Friedenthal would be at a loss if he tried to prove that in him lectures any religious considerations led him to decide against the hypothesis of spontaneous generation, or against the intellectual evolution of man from beasts. Friedenthal next went on to discuss the peculiarities of the human soul, and said that on this topic he agreed more closely with Father Wasmann than the previous speakers had done. The soul existed in the world of concepts or ideals, which could be brought into connection with the sense-organs or their perceptions.
