New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

centuries and the Augustinian creed lar e4ceeueu
in harshness. gloom and the attrDuuoh OF GdooIo
qualities to the Supreme Being any oil Calvlhs
ina ginings But the Church knew an Orlgen as
well as an Augustine, and the Denels OF tie lorner
, include every tenet held to-day Dy thc moso au-
vanced liberal Christians. Nhlle mVrtoNcI, ,hc
Augustinian views are undenlaDN those
which have found most acceptance III
formal creeds and cdtechlsms. u Us not 10
be doubted that the ideas OF Orlgen nave fenily
bccn far more generally adopted. Inc capacliE
of the human mind for holding IN soiutioh, SO 10
sneak the most opposite and lhcohPatIpie uoc-
trines and systems OF th0ught anu cunuuvS nnS
always been one of the deepest mysteries OF psy-
cholocv That tendency Is accouhtaDIe LOT thf
facility with which protested Chrlstlahs ignore
Gospel teachings habltualy, wchomS '4 tc
losing faith in the importance ana uc urgency
of The instructions so neglected. IL may DE tha'
all these contradictions are the necessary co a
ouences of the eternal CONNECT peIween Cnc HcSn
and the shirt; between the material ana the iSy-
cbical Miss Phelps at least THINKS th't tne beso
Droof of the reality of spiritual elemehI IN huina
nature may be found in the mhuvSu 'cactlo.
against scientific materialism whch thc present
- ie bcing shown in a strong and steadily en-
tending psychica wave'-the Snld wave carry
ing thousands. despite the influence OIL scIeHoS' W
search for evidence of suprasehsua IollI m, VI tA
istence in all manner OF strange ways Inv IN
fercncc 10 be drawn from this movement Is thas
The dlminution Of faith in the superht 80
meuts Of Christianity has no' WIousn . q III
sponding loss of faith in the Supernatural zen
orally. or that the human nina mas IL liinpossl-
HE 70 rest in a ncgatiOn, but Is lmpeIIeu 10
ottomnt the solution OF all mysteries, ana PER,
hans most of all those which appear 10 lruhsccnu
ordinary experience. =, ,., w.
In her chapter entitled The Psychicai NaNe
the author refers hopefully to the cHor's WIZ
have been made recently TO Apply 20 tbnt rcof
of research comparison and analysis W UNIV S'v"'
n'oes of obscure phenomena which every age mas
produced which have alternately stiihul"t .L ~
stition and scepticsm. III, she tnliN'' ',niro5
ecur, nbenomcna are once carefully eAahihcu'
cofaIogued. ella siied and defined, by trained oD,
servers the great psychica opportunity WIN nav
been awaited of, and for the nrSu u '"C iopp,iGc
ual side Of human nature Will Po>,o9' 'r''rntafrI
basis The prospect indecd Is T0I ui- Lar,iI i
bnt if is 70 be feared that Miss Phelps scarcely
estimates Alright the extent Of the dlleTe MHct
senarnte modem science from the ola schOolS Oh
Foith tbougb in ore of her earlier chapters she
come, close to the truth in suggesting mat lhe
study and continued pursuit OF pureH ~ IL
science must have H. tei ne thot is the case with
uu,Iot reasonable expectation can the analysis oi
thing, psychical be entrusted 10 tne Nv ~, Ui
material science, who, eN-hy Pothe!ol;; -; az 10
caDacitated for any other than mdterial IHqu
II moreoypr the development OF the splrltul
clements in humanity Is largely uepelucGd uP o,
the operation of faith when irahScehuS eA-
pprp nce-phvsical experience that Is 10 Shy-h39W
nor material science ever be- brought 10 accept lne
only methods of illumination which are capable
of being applied to such SUBJECT: me MY i't,
GSt of the modern scepuclsm IS tlic IN
of demonstrating, by material tests ana eNlurctS'
the existence of that spirit upon Whlch al re-
ligion and all Of what is called the hlgher ne u
UandS Science. il i true, mas thuS ia! i"IlC' w
Inro,,o tho Identity between dead and living mat
ter, and, therefore is unable to deny the pGss.
blity Of spirit Indeed il is not able TO declare e
that III, demonstrated differences oetWe'E Ge!u
and living matter are not in them elves enough to
Justify the influence of an eliminated something
which. whatever else it may be, is asslrcdly not
physical. .,,;o.ta, horo
Perhaps the main hope Of reconciliation here
rests upon the fact that the scientific position Is
really not scientific All our knowledge IS rela-
tive and coed deal Of what passes for knowl-
edge is ecioism. The possibility that what is
called matter and what is called spirit may DE
after all but differing conditions or states OF a
single substance, has occurred TO many tnliiKers
in manv ares and never has the hypothesis Of a
universal primary substance had more support
from known phenomena than at present; vi me
ultimate nature of matter we know nothing, ana
thprp fore the field Of conjecture Is pracucaly I'M
limited Strictly sreaking a spiritual theory Is
every whit rs scientific MS material theory, ana
the future trend Of true science must consequently
he in the direction, not OF preiudlced expectations
or gratutous assumptions. but Of whatever con-
clusion impartial and unfinching research my
bring upon all lines offering veriiiable results