The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
THE TWO-FOLD NATURE OF MAN.

Man is dual being and has dual
nature. He is constituted of matter
and spirit and formed by the union
of body and soul. He is constitution
ally an inhabitant of two worlds-the
world of matter and the world of
mind or the world of forms and the
world of thoughts and feelings. He
lives under material, and spiritual
laws and is operated on by material
and spiritual forces.
By his physical and animal organ
ization he is material. He is organ
lied of material elements, builded of
material forces, and is part of the
cosmical universe. He has form,
weight, extension, color, odor, flavor;
can be seen, handled, touched, meas
ured and weighed. These are all prop
critics of matter and prove that the
human body is material organism.
He is cognized by the senses. He
has sense organs, by the use OF which
he comes to know material things and
to be impressed by material forces;
believes matter has real, substantial
existence, is real entity, and is the
ground or basis of all sensations. If
it did not exist sensation would be
impossible.
1t is not probable that astronomy,
physics, mechanics, chemistry, geol-
ogy, anatomy, and physiology deal
with nonentity,- are based on moth
ing and founded on that which has
no existence.
Force revealed in or through mat
ter constitutes the basis of the whole
series of inductive sciences; and
matter must exist or scientific truth
is a misnomer and physical science
has no foundation in fact.
But matter is not the only sub
stance in existence. There is spiritual
substance. This is known to con-
seriousness by it's attributes. 1t is
never cognized by the senses. Its at
tributes are intelligence, emotion, and
will. 1t is active in thought, feeling
and volition. 1t knows, believes,
thinks, reasons, judges, remembers,
hopes, loves, obeys and worships. All
this we know by consciousness, ard
not by our senses. We know these
facts or we do not know anything;
we know them or there is no such
thing as knowledge.
The sciences of metaphysics, psy-
chology mental philosophy, ethics.
mathematics, logic, law and religion
certainly deal with things, persons,
qualities and relations. These great
universal spiritual sciences are GER
tainly founded in truth or there is no
truth.
The two substances, matter and
spirit, constitute the mysterious du-
alism we call man. Hence we have
dual life, dual consciousness, a
dual experience and dual history
dual pleasures and enjoyments.
We find these two facts in all Ian
guage, literature, law, philosophy,
science, art, theology, religion and
history. Everything that man creates
and makes visible or audible takes
on his own dualism. History and
life. science and art, law and religion
alike have material and spiritual
side. Materialism that claims that
matter is all is not true. and idealism
that claims that thought is, all is not
true.
But dual realism is true. There are
not only thoughts but things. There
are real things that answer to thoughts
and our ideas clothe themselves in
words, become vocal in song and po-
etry and eloquence-wo themselves
into marble, and we have sculpture;
build houses and we have architect
ure; spread themselves on canvas and
we have painting. They bring about
new combination of forces and we
have invention. We learn a new
truth, find new world, or new sub
stance, and we have discovery. We
read a new meaning into nature, and
science is born. Matter is not self
existence but created substance.
Clerk Maxwell says shat the molecule
bears all the marks of a manufactured
article" 1t was created by spirit and
for the use of spirit. 1t is not an in
finite but a finite substance. 1t is
not here to control but to be con-
trolled.
1t is not the creator, but the mate
rial out Of which the worlds were
made. 1t is not the builder but the
stuff of which organisms are builded.
1t is not force so much as the vehicle
of force. 1t is not spirit, but the ma
terial used by spirit-the servant and
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