| Show THE scientific BASIS OF BELIEF I 1 north americast Ame ricart review man is ie a soul imprisoned and residing in mechanism a spirit the of god brought to earth and with ah potentialities embodied his hie mechi mechanism Ln is distinguished from fro no those of lower orders simply by the greater perfection of the organism in which hia existence is passed in the seen uni verse hib bib spirit from the higher orders of intelli gendes and existences by the fact that he is only ablerto able to attain the ends for which he to is imprisoned for a time on this earth through the opera odera tiou tion of physical structure he ad vances by the aid of physical forces and of chemical changes which his enclosing apparatus and machinery nery are especially fitted to produce or i to take advantage of in the intricate series of operations 1 which he automatically or by choice 3 performs as his work in this W orld 31 his visible representative is a marvel lous machine but it is a machine me chins simply he himself is of the invisible Z this man comes out of the alks unseen 11 uni A verse spends a short it lif fv ju in the see been no v and d returns as mysteriously to the unseen when his work is done and b hejl mortal life ends he is a composite of soul intellect and accidental physical accessories while we often meet wl with h ill defined and uncertain I 1 that he has other means and method of cognition of the universes both poop and nit is invariably the fact that his bis soul his intellect and his bis physical bences are so intimately related that lift ho gains substantially all his knowl edge of the seen at least through the 1 aid of the senses alone he galna gains a we think and hope some slight ae with the unseen through gb j the workings of the mind but mod J ern science has in the midst of its ite strivings for more tangible and im 1 mediately appreciable results given lot ua some light in this direction and we are able to see farther fanner into t the he bi hitherto the unseen and invisible than in the do day of the old saxons science is beginning to see a probability at least thai the seen is the issue of the ups unseen een thal all life ell 11 II characteristics of the livi all the material the vital the espiritu spiritual of humanity not only have come out of the unseen but they have brought to us all that exists in the unseen la in such varying proportions as humanity in its imperfect complexness comp letness te a capable of accepting that tha t life like matter and all other existences Is ie actually immortal man is composed of all the elements and in his hia self an aa in his bis bod body in his intangible composition he be a part 0 every element of the unseen As in his body we may ky jb refined rained chemical analysis find in min muscle scle blood and bones not only nitrogen lime and 1 agen hydrogen F but traces of iron and of g jolias jol id jas as earth air and water and all constituents and the finest elements of the stars are there so we are to believe are soul and in tAnd spiritual parts all represent dative in compo composition MoD of the highest eavens the deepest helle and the li earest as the farthest souls intel jt s spirits man being thus a part of universe seen or unseen senst every hie ble or unfelt consciously or duncon related it is certain that he be telou sly in each realm mast st seek knowledge I 1 through gh his appropriate part physical science jene e gives him know knowledge edge of t the he erial its substance gub stance laws forces A and energies 1 intellect brings bring him in t to 0 h with ith the intellectual spiritual I 1 convey to him the intuitions intuition i not t the less true and exact if rightly po than science itself the of morality and the fund ta elements of religious and soul ife 0 r each way may perhaps be expected li coald aid tb the e jtb other ef in ila their common or ap but the truest pro tor roust mus t come from froin the truest rit td most appropriate source science teach religion creeds can give vS annot t baid I 1 add to science in its formulations of law intellectual attainments abnot substitute themselves for the les we mast always we may nature through a i atu btu study dy es test tube and spectroscope W sound logic must always aya formulate u ur r we must learn to know I 1 d through the spiritual powers no aws existent if less readily perceived dmd d characterized in language than 7 ether humane attributes the sly 1 l to is as 8 essential to a dom complete character as is the intellectual I 1 bB mane or the simple moral or the physical itself the unsymmetrical in may lack this element just jtb he be may be otherwise defective but one noial to permeation on the other it MR may Y I 1 think undoubtedly lot in excess and in defect of other equalities ties blind torn tm exhibited a mar s talent within a limited sphere chbr abr music though intellect ind nd I 1 can readily conceive a person or a race rudeane rude and untutored even in fk X d degree ree bar barlous but endowed ij mke adl gods children in old testament days with superior religious faculties 3 bat of the sp spiritual we must admit come our intuitions or religious the faculty that we here herc rec anize rn I 1 ize not only gives power of lecog a of religious truths and holds us le loser er to god but it is that also atrich ch gives origin to a necessity in soul of humanity for settled re us belief and this feces necessity sity is as use in its manifestation and as im in i its ts compulsion as a any ny ty ther of the characteristics that sus tain the life of the race |
