The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-14
srIrMrIeTs DISCUSS
SEARCH FOR SOUL"

London, Jan. SIN. recent arti-
Gle in a leading London newspaper, a
leading English critic discusses the
new and startling book by DR.. Ber-
nard Hcll -~.. - "a : of the
Soul" The discussion follows:
The Soul of man is the supreme
mystery of life, Prehistoric man imag-
ined that in his dreams something left
his body which returned to 1t before
he awoke.
For the ancient Egyptians TIE pres
eat life was scarcely more than a pre-
variation for the existence beyond
The grave, when the soul should at
last be freed from the yoke Of matter.
In the JEWISH raagion God awarded
the good and punished the wicked.
The soul left the body at death to
pass to the dark underworld Of the
souls of the dead-Sheol.
In the vedauta of the Hindus the
soul was particle of an all-prevad-
ing principle the Universal Intellect
or Soul of the World. Among the
prehistoric religions the followers of
Zoroaster, or ia, athustra, had the
following legend or belief:
1.-THE good soul remains three
nights seated by the head oil the
dead man; on tho morning of the
fourth day IL seems to be place OF
csirest plants ard scents, iihaling
sw eets scented wind; there comes to
1, maiden OF exceeding great beauty,
which is the mans conscience. Then
the soul takes its way first to the
Good-thought paradise then to the
Cood-word paradise and finally to
endless light. The fate of the evil
soul is the reverse, ending in eternal
darkness"
Beyond knowledge.
DR.. Bernard Hollander surveys the
old religions in his remarkable work,
'In Search of the Soul" He covers
the PHILOSOPHERS of the world, and
treats of philosophical speculations
and scientific researches from ancient
times to the present day.
His conclusion is that the soul and
its flight are still beyond definite hui
man knowledge and only to be con-
ceived by faith.
Science has made wonderful prog
ress," he says, "but the problems of
the First Cause, of the nature Of the
soul of the possibility of life after
death the nature of the forces which
are beyond our control, are still
where they were in prehistoric times.
Science has neved touched the ply
steal; it Is bound to be material
to be minated to phenomena which
can be verified by the senses"
Will the time ever come when the
nature of the soul is realized? Dis
tinguished spiritualists, like Sir Oil
YER Lodge, claim that 1t has come and
that across the abyss beyond life man
carries the semblance Of his corporeal
body and his living soul. Others Of
his school claim to be in converse
with disembodies spirits.
DR.. Bernard Hollander half sug-
gests that the soul is lodged in the
brain since he alludes to the brain
as the organ of psychic activities"
and Phyche is the soul.
Problem Of the Brain.
OF the brain itself, he says that the
scientists know but little. "Notwith-
standing some twenty-five centuries
of philosophic speculation and more
than two centuries of scientific re-
search, we are still in ignorance Of
the nature of mind. of the varieties
of mental activities and the laws
which govern them.
zone of the reasons for the lack
of progress is that most psychologists
until quite recently concerned them
selves almost exclusively with con-
seriousness and the ideals and under
standing of man, studying thought
for its own sake, whereas the science
of mind also embraces strivings and
desires, feeling and action, l. e.,
character and conduct.
All these attributes are Of the soul.
1t may be possible that when DR..
Hollander and his colleagues realize
what the brain is, a clew will be CIV
en- to the hiding place of the soul.