The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-24
all TINS turmoil and c,ashtns. into the great here
after, and cries,

All too contracted are these walls OF flesh
This vital warmth too cold these visual orbss
For an. any passion of the soul thatleads
that longs for love IL may never know this side the
toll, dreaming beautiful dreams Of a land where
there Is love without selfshness, music without
discord flowers that wIt a not beauty without
old. And who shall say that this is all dream
that TINS great throoblng, longing soul shall die
that all these high hopes and heaven. born aspira-
tons snail be quenched In death-rhat all earth's
harsh dscors shall not be resolved into one grand
harmony 'while the earth rolls III It's cycles orDng
to perfect wOrldW
Truth is Gods choicest gift to man. He does not
give II to the careless, the sluggish. the worldly.
If lie did they would not prize IL; they would not
keepit 1t must be roled for; 1t must be yearned
It as for silver u Is the pearl Of great price,"
which he who finds does well to '.sell his all and
tolied and yearned and sgonized to find the truth.
we were suddenly called to leave this world tor
aspirations which guided us, Dead Buried ' with
our bodlesS All gOne-ahnlhilated? No O thou.
sarS times hes, no For now we see through glass
put then shall l know even as also l shall be
known" b. Z. WASHBURNE.
Has Man Immortal SOuI3
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
We understand by an immortal soul spirit that
inhabIts the body Of man, and which. the disso-
luton OF the body, Will continue exist forever be
conscious OF its existence and have perfect know
leuge anu reCOuectOn OF all IL passed through III
connection with the body while alive ON earth.
II man possesses such soul or spirit IL must be
independent OF life, and either have existed in
an unconscious state before 1t entered the body, or
was called into existence by the Creator for the
special purpose OF nnabltlng q particular body.
What are the characteristics by which man Is dis
tnguished as q s0u-pOseessng animal from SOUL
less animal? Consciousness, reason and a knowledge
of good and evil are the qualities that distinguish
man from the brute, and they are therefore claimed
to be properties of the soul. At what time and in
Wnal manner does the soul enter the flesh? 1t
not be that the father and mOher by the act of pro-
creation call the soul INTO EXISTENCE well they
furnish the quick seed which develops the body by
the operation or NATURES law. A spirit Is thing
which Is not In nature, and cannot be called into
doctrine the soul Is breathed INTO the flesh by spe-
cial act OF the Creator. But at what time Is this
bryO, or does 1t come into the fntus with the first
breath OF llreg Who will answer the question The
soul certainly must be IN the body When The child is
born and remain in an unconscious state until man
becomes thinking animal.
II cannot be denied that the qualities on which
we base our belief In The existence OF an immortal
SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS, reason and the knowledge OF
good and ev-are vastly different at different stages
OF lie. They developed with the body ana
decay with the body. They are strong when the
body is strong and vigorous, and weak when the
body Is enieebled by sickness or age They are
mentally great or small according to the organism
which sets them In motion. They may become dor.
by the mechanism. They may even become
apparently extinct in man, throughout his
natural llfe ana yet at the examination OF the body
a soul spirit issues forth from it, with renewed
consciousness and perfect knowledge OF all things
which affected the living man, even though he
unconsci6iis OF them at the time they happened
pause for an answer TO my inquiry, - Has man an
immortal soulY'
Man Is q creature OF this world, part OF the
created all, animated with the spirit that pervades
all nature and governed by NATURES universal and
Interchangeable law. What is not In nature Is not in
him. The finite Is the limit OF mans knowledge.
lie cannot go beyond It, The law OF nature is
sufficient for all things In nature; 1t leads every
thing through Its destiny-each according to It's
kind. 1t directs the seed to become plant or
treean apple tree or pear tree, according to Its
kind. In the lower animal 1t Is guided by INSTINCT
In man instinct ID enlightened by reason, which
directs him In the pursuit Of happiness Reason is
the resdlt Of thought and experience. Thought Is
secretion OF the brain, which affects the
nervous system and causes those feelings
that give warning OF what Is right aud wrong. EX-
pereioe and the Impressions received through the
senses enllghten man to correct his UNDERSTANDING
Action IA the law OF life and happiness Is Its aim.
Happiness IL within the law; the pursuit OF 1t deter
mines the will. II man understood the law that is
In HIM he would find there a code OF ethics more
suitable to MN as man, more conducive to his
happiness and better adapted 10 his social cOndi-
ton than any that has yet governed his kind This
hope to show hereafter, If circumstances Will
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