The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-12


to be proved that the soul assumed Is not Itself matter
And you then quote Toriullian 10 show that
he WAS quito physicist in the dehniteness OF
his conceptions regarding the SOUL since lie
believed In TIA COrpofeal nat no md vou won
der what would we happened 90 this great
Christian father amid the roaring lions OF Bel
fist"
Hut YOU omit TO inform your roadcrs that
Tcrtullian was, after all, u Srirtualist. in the
strictly modern eense, since the corporal soul
III which he believed was simpy tue equivalent
uf the spiritual nuoy OF the tcncliing3 according
to suirituHlitn, Tor ne drew liis ~ tlur1 uf the
soul not only from his INTERPRETATIONS Of tho
liiblc. but from the comuiuncations of a female
medium, who, he .nys, described nsYul ye cor
uoredly cxnihilei to her view. and ns being
tender ami lucid, and Of "crial color, and every
way Of human form"
cd4e uf phcnoWenA quite aiutat to those or
modern fpirtua.isin; nut ho lcit the question
on Open one how for all uigansns are Indebted
Tor life. intelligence, and Ornatlvc power to a
divine influx, q higher life." The tact ~ such
An influx L. what no human science cgn prove ur
dtsrr1Ne. In the nature Of Things the eter-
nal cause must tie above an proof. TO prove God
would be to look down upon dod, To be superior
Af.cr having admitted that "the HE imma-
nent everywhere" may be ~ suboidnatc part
aud function " a higher NE" You. with q
STANCE neglect " vour nd mission. call upon Mr..
Martiueau to tell Won nj what moment tho sOul
could have come In, ", In the production OF TIE
snow-crysial for ex ample, "an impohderabl9
formative soul unitDs itself with the sub~tanCt
after II; e>cape from tho liquid Aud YOU play
tulY ask, " Did II enter at once or by dcgtecsH
Il 10 distributed through the entire mass Of tho
cryatalf II - II leg, 9r arms ,W2,a, becomes
a partcular TEN ernture be needed be iOrO IT can
exercise Its voc itipn p SC.
TnE HIGHER IttR.
Did T. never occur to you that the higher
liic," which YOU cOncode ~ an idea not to be
excluded, may account for the soul, nos Oniy in
tue iormaiive power ~ the snow crystal, hut Ia
AL Orlanifm-, vegetable ana amin III The force
which every being and everything is possessed
OF lies In It's IDEA; aud tins idca-a Vit ilzing,
I..H az al
the rcasUnoi WHO, for proof Of the heat in
u BODY, should X. has IL tegs or rnst What
hrc"iuci oi III Did 10 enter at once, or by de
grrrs ~
Universal science IA hrosinc Us nearer every
day to tins conception OF q single ell mrnthry
su"s,inco or ior,e. from which, ~ ulurrrntia-
uou. transform itun, and - Murtte adjust
mont ut proportions. al the Nuirtl ~, proper
tics, ana cNq'-itc ioims II NAT Ger eni ular' ia
Of m,nd are uruuured; ana in this Intelligent
force. informing principle, or higher me- per.
NAulu- .ll thin-- thu cum u 'tinl ga IL hum "A
soul. We have "a glimpse Of tue Immediate aEeu-
cy IT Deity.
You AK, III there be au,thing hes ideH matter
IN tie csg. or IL tae iut1ut s4h.cqIrnfly slum-
bering Ia the womb, what IS itF Ana Won con
ciudc, Matter define that mysterious thing
hy Nnich all thts Is accom- Ii-htd. How "a came
20 have this power l. question on which l
mover Veutured an op niOD.'
but, sir u Is to venture q very decided opin-
Ion To al uiii, as not ~ CONN O. wan your ny
p1thesis, IN notion that the orsin ot tie power
may be IN "higuer MO- Of which the lower
lie, revealed in matter, may o, Junction.
AMI wh,u spu employ the words promi and
/
~ Manifestations 81 beauty, precedence, al pa
ton, mind, ana Consciousness, you Invest matter
with that "hi-hUr me- tho inception ~
Nnicl You seem at Times, with n strange con-
traGictpu. to tclcg ITO To tuV rtun of the ctno-
uous. Nnur my .t,riOts something UrcunVs
tvU-fa,ed unity, Ike tho convex ami c1n-
cave 81 the same curve" partHkirg of propert les
which tht thto,uElans CAT spiritual. aud which
you prefer go Gail promise and I'telcb.'
\ FUUirIIss CONTENTION.
But what an ,iule-s coma hN b., is, thon. that
you Lrp tug4- q iul Afl,t dll the ilht.tl OH.
and clauuiau1uS ~ No.r "fgunicut-snI ALL
you Uut l.rth tu your -tNI .-NoI are ortu.ht L.
Hh admission which dematcu ulr. your Wanted
matter, lnirud Gees ihtstriIou~ aSoucs which,
! iNr $50 th 80 C.u Show tu ga" contrary, may
Doe spiritual, Add points. ln spite II your skep-
/ tied What h. itf" 10 some ming besides mat
! ter IN the c-g."
You express In conciusl %, a hope that tho
minds of tie taturs may bc uureI aud m gA ,icr
tuan ours, partly because ~ thcir iefp.g knowi-
e.se OF matter and t.eir more fIsAiul con-
And vet here ~ uhcnomcna. aito.tod - by
thousands # competent witnesses. Tor which IL
Is e! aimed tunt tntS prove the instant apparent
believed L" he ,uctiof Intelligent inft" or VAL
! -phcnumcnA gong on under Nuur very nose,
! ana which have bcen tested ID Wallace, lTOokos,
| valley, NntuCl, Butte uf, AkslkUf. II Irfl-un,
/ eNtpu, l. chan.n. Cunning, Dentou. aud hum
ureds pf other Respectable ply -icl,is aud Vet
YOU, without giving To the subject The study
ofuert test what science asserts of II, csc 20
from the whole am zins body OF fict-, aud the
h'yothc g. ia wluid account for them, with
the brave. ii!ctnuous cry Of.
Hut | viii spare v,u the repetition OF a. o
iinald s..N IT. !. came to}oh II IN ih'-' l!-noT
moDGs, ~ ~e Alpine sum niis;' th"-' 80 a. '-
! cialm to be sometime lifted, what form OF
( speech would you have found uncienn enough
i"r INC lowo. lcyoi Of your ordjnny gi.coarse
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