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and is identified as life. The soul is defined as a 

 quantity. 



This is diametrically opposed to the view that 

 life and the soul cannot be described in the same 

 terms, and to the widely accepted view that "the soul 

 consists of the sum total of cerebral functions." 



Of course, vague notions of a "pre-existing" soul 

 that at birth becomes incarnated or reincarnated, 

 also are utterly discredited. Human motherhood 

 thus acquires a new and peculiar dignity: with the 

 beginning of the soul dating from the same moment 

 as the beginning of the body of her unborn child, 

 indeed holy, and akin to the brooding of Tetragram- 

 maton over a formless world, are the woman's long 

 days of her enceinte waiting. 



X. The concept that all psychic qualities and prop- 

 erties are qualities and properties that attach to» 

 and are peculiar to, and dependent on the Z-manne 

 of the combination, or organization, of ultimate 

 units. 



It is the general concept that psychic qualities 

 and properties (ranging from feeble sensation to 

 man's psychic powers) attend the organization of 

 elementary units into a Z-structure as chemical 

 qualities and properties (ranging from inertness to 

 violent reactions) attend the atoms. {See p. 141.) 

 This concept is entirely at variance with the idea 



