of the disease but solely on its external if then the jews and witli them the referred the two chief of conditions to influence there remains for him who believes himself bound by their opinion without choosing to shut out the lights of modern science the glaring of considering same diseases as in one age natural in supernatural but the most formidable difficulty for in his attempted between the ol the new testament and the intelligence of our day arises from the of the latter on own mind � an influence renders him adverse to the idea of this in the philosophy of the present ours to resolve host of wliich in the new testament arc as distinct into a system of forming the of a single sub miracles of � m indeed sends forth from itself separate powers not however to as individuals but to return aa accidents into the unity of the substance this cast of wc have already in the opinions of concerning angels and it still more decidedly in hid personal are too and as expresses it the comprehension of two subjects in one individual is too inconceivable to find a ready hence it is everywhere with vague that a kingdom of evil and darkness is spoken of and though a personal prince is given to it its understood to be mere and operations by which the evil principle itself but the most of s opinion concerning is this it is too much for him to believe that asked ihe name of the demon in the since he himself doubts the of those of the kingdom of darkness it cannot he have been thus decidedly supposed by christ � he understands the question what u thy f mark v to be addressed not to the demon but to the man t plainly in opposition to the whole for the answer z to be in no degree the result of a misunderstanding but tlie right answer � the one expected by if however the are according to s opinion powers that which guides them and various functions is the law which the kingdom of s in relation to the kingdom of light on this theory the worse a man is morally the closer must be the between him and the kingdom of evil and the conceivable � tlie entrance of the power of darkness into the personality of the man i e � must always occur in the most wicked but this is not so the in the to bo only in the sense that all sick need forgiveness of sins and the greatest for example are spared the of possession the common opinion with its personal this contradiction it is true that this opinion also aa we find for instance in the firmly it to be by sin only that man subjects himself to the of the demon but here there is yet scope for the individual will of the demon who often from motives not to be calculated passes by the worst and holds in chase the less wicked � on the contrary if the arc ed as by to be actions of the power of e in its relation to the power of goodness this relation being regulated by laws eveiy arbitrary and accidental is excluded hence it evidently costs that some pains to the consequence that according to his theory the � f t s after the example of i b s viii lu thus and her aa of mid destruction not because either the or the were but beauty attracted him tou ri � in the life of always bo the most wicked proceeding the parent contest of two powers in he the position that the state of possession not appear in those who entirely give up to evil and thus an internal unity of disposition but only in in whom there exists a struggle against in that case however tlie above state being reduced to a purely moral phenomenon must ear more violent inward struggle must manifest itself under this form and especially those who give up to evil must before arriving at this pass through a period of conflict that is of possession therefore adds a physical condition namely that the i of evil in the man must have weakened his particularly tlie nervous system before he can become susceptible of the state but since such of the nervous may occur without any moral fault not sec that the state it is intended to to power as its source is thus chiefly to natural causes and that the argument its own object hence quickly turns away from this side of the question and on tiie of the with the whereas he ought rather to compare former with the and insane for it is only by this mc ins that any can be thrown on the nature of possession this shifting of the question from the ground of and to that of morality and religion renders the discussion concerning the one of the most useless which s work contains t let u then the ungrateful attempt to the new testament conception of the or to our modern ideas � lot us rather in relation to this subject understand the statements of new testament as simply as they arc given without allowing our to be by the ideas therein presented which belonged to the age and nation of its writers j the method adopted for the cure of the state was among he jews in with what we have ascertained to have been of its the cause of the malady was not to be as in natural diseases an object or condition such as an a morbid excitement or but a self conscious being hence it was treated not mechanically or but i c by the demon was to depart and to give effect to this it was witli the names of beings who were believed to have power over tlie main 