New-York tribune., 1874-11-07

questions not likely to be treated In that
mood which belongs scientific inquiries and yet all
the mperously claiming our attention Psychology
the development and the destiny Of the individual of
his cognitions his emotions his voions and present
ing like divergent opniOns-on the one side such
hvpotheses those OF Herbert Spencer Maudsley and
MoleschOt, that mind Is product OF matter, that the
will develoDed force acting under laws that death
is the dissolution matter the conversion OF that
force; and the other sde such traditional dogmas
those OF Lactantus Augustine and Jerome, tnat the
soul been created in the body. that the Will may
regeneraod by irresistible grace, and that the spirit
will be recothed hereafter with the whole present body
Sociology is not far behind with such problems as the
origin, the development, and the destiny society Of
It's arts Is Sciences its politics; and Is branching with
a similar divergence OF views on the sde the hy
pohcses of such civilians AS Locke. yico and Draper
that state social contract that the history OF
nations proceeds under periodic and progressive laws
and that societies, like individuals. physioogically
viewed, have their infancy youth aud decline
born but 10 grow and die; and on other side the
dogmas Of such eccesastcs as Beiarmn, Bossuet and
Edwards. that the church Is divine theOcracy that
Providence throughout history has been "a systematic
Judgment of nations behalf Of the church aid
that the nations are yet to be suodued by the
lous return and reign or CHRIST.
Theology also Is emerging with new problems such or
che origin the Development and the destiny OF religion
OF traditions, It's creeds and its cults and Is already
breaking hostile camps on the other side the vo.
bourg Max Muller and Cointe. holding that there ia one
essential universal faith derived from the light OF ma
ture that there has been scale and growth Of religious
history through degrees OF relative Perfection and
that the perfect religion OF the future will In the
dedication OF humanity, the worship OF wOmanhood
the hierarchy OF science aud the other side the
disciples OF revealed religion. such as Leland Piey
and Chalmers maintaining that revelation of reIVion
is necessary well us nporant that there has been
primitive miraculous revelation. OF which other pre-
tended revelations but cOrruptons Commercials
and that this revealed religion Is destined 10 nrevaI
all other religions by supernatural conversions nd
judgments at the end Of the present d,pensation
Aud the general question u be gathered from all the
psyehea sciences at length presents to on the one
side the opinion that the regenerate SOUL tle chnrch
and tho coming millennium are parts OF "a new sn,r,tnai
system ensuing upon the old material creation and on
the other side the conjecture that religion science no
ties art ali potential In the Names of the ann
and yet revert 10 the ney cloud from whence tbry
spraDe.
Behind these problems OF the physical and psycbiea
sciences others still more rccOndte and
the questions as TO the essential natura OK
mind and matter ana the absolute reality before and
beneath all phenomena; questions which on tho one
side have a length Issued ia the opinions OF Herbart
Lotze and Fechner that phenomena bOta natural ana
spiritual are the Of real or
inonads, or sefmanfesting souls together win fhe
extreme specuatoDs of Hegel shOponhsuer and Hart
mann, the ntelgble universe Ia logical process
Of absolute reason and thought or product OF blind
prtmOrdial force and human Will, q historical deveIon-
OF UNCONSCIOUS force aud will into conseIo,s
thought and Questions which the other side
have scarcely advanced beyond tae ancl. .nt dogmIs
that body aud Soul xre 9ut 4uuet supsta4ses cvaos