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will find it difficult to allay or to reconcile with 

 his philosophy of the simplicity of the soul. 

 Do the two souls exist in one body? Or is the 

 newly-created soul superadded to the first? 

 Do they coalesce ? Or does the newly-created 

 soul absorb the evolution soul ? And if so, 

 how can such a soul be said to be simple ? Or 

 we can take the three different ways into which 

 the speculation must resolve itself. Either the 

 two souls exist in man independent of each 

 other ; or they act in unison by co-operation, 

 or coalescence, or absorption ; or the first soul 

 is either annihilated or expelled. The theistic 

 evolutionist will hardly be ready to accept the 

 first. In the second case the soul of man is 

 not simple but compound ; for the third there 

 is no warrant of any kind either in science, or 

 philosophy, or experience. 1 Indeed we prefer 

 to these revolting and unwarranted alterna 

 tives, which Father Wasmann's speculation 

 forces upon us, to accept crass materialism 

 without question. Materialistic materialism is 



i Possibly some expressions of St. Thomas might be regarded by 

 some as pertinent here ; but it will be difficult to show that they have 

 application at all, except possibly by way of analogy : and even analog 

 ically it would be difficult to show that they are applicable. 



