The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

the natural and demonstrable facts of ma
ture which he opened before them.
The author, page IS. says: For nearly
600 years controversy has ragged between
speculative theology. which teaches life
after physical death, and speculative phil
osophy, which teaches that death ends
all With a Luther. Calvin. Knox and
Wesley on one side, and a VOitaire. Schop-
enhauer, Kant and Renan on the other, K
is little wonder that lesser minds become
confused as to this question of life after
dom begin. i believe. not one begins 1
know. when referring to spiritual things
and life TO come. Who can estimate
the benefits that would flow from the
exchange Of mere faith in a life to come,
for actual knowledge that such Is the
fact? The weakness of theology is its
| ignorance of physical facts. The weak
ness of scientific scepticism is it's con-
tempt for spiritual religion
The author challenges the representa-
tives of theology metaphysics and modern
physical science to offer themselves as
students and demonstrators of the fact of
life after physical death.
Natural science comes forward TO re-
inforce primitive Christianity. for it has
at command the facts of nature. which
support the real doctrine of the Christ:
dispels the vagaries of metaphysics. and
aids in the extension of scientific knOwl-
edge and research"
The author intimates that asceticism in
some mild form is necessary to attain to
mastership in the great school of natural
science; not the cruel Yogi practices or
the strict asceticism of Great Buddha.
rather the simple asceticism of the Naza-
rene
Page 90 the author says: THE spiritual
world is as truly material as our own.
1t is simply a world of matter finer in
particle and more rapid in vibratory &C
ton than our physical world"
The author then proceeds to describe the
spiritual spheres. which "encircles this
IT, IL
there are oceans and continents"
There are mountains valleys and plains
there is growth and YegetatiOn-that
world is inhahitated by intelligent beings.
people who have previously lived here.
Between men and women on the spiritual
side exists the same Irresistible attraction
which leads them into individual love
relations here.
Chapter is intended as a partial expo
sition of the philosophy of individual life,
based upon natural science Chapter s
the author says: 1.-THE universal life ee-
ments are four in number, defined as fol-
lows: % Electro magnetism; % the vito
chemical life element. 90 the spiritual
life element; "a the soul element"
The author then informs us that one or
more of these vital elements magnetizes.
WHITES. vitaliZes or animates all physi-
cal matter. including the mineral atom,
the plant, the animal and the man.
The Spiritual Basis of evolution is a
marvellous chapter, and the many state
ments pertaining to evolution compel ad-
miration, If they do not at first convince.
more careful second reading dispels
many of the myths of other teachings,
while third reading brushes the cobwebs
of the past aside and the book seems il
lumined by the sunlight of truth.
The pages given to the analysis of the
doctrines of Darwin and Drummond,
wherein she picks to pieces, demonstrates
the weakness Of their theories, and the
harsh and unlovely doctrines they sought
to teach. and which were indorsed by the
most advanced scientists of the time, Is
worthy the careful study of every man
who thinks. Materialsm and dogmatism
are brushed aside like cobwebs, by the
force and logic of her facts. and she
energies from the combat with these
giants and opponents of materialistic sci