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once upon their legs again, the philosophies get into them as their 

 proper souls. The first corse to be re-animated is physiology; psy- 

 chology is the first of the ghosts which will be incarnate in a human 

 habitation. The doctrine of the structural human soul is the basis 

 of philosophy, as that of the organic body is the foundation of phy- 

 siology. And this doctrine of the psychical man is threefold ; first, 

 what he does : second, what he is: and third, where he comes from. 

 "With regard to the first point, every house and every history is its 

 answer: practical psychology is therefore the knowledge of the entire 

 works of the soul. With regard to the second, it involves the human 

 form in its brightest robes of consciousness, with all its actions poured 

 back into it as powers, and seen not in effects, but in causes. And 

 for the third point, as touching the origin of the soul, it is as the 

 origin of the impression from the seal, or of the child from the 

 parent; for the archetype by its terms is the accoun t of the type. 

 Psychology is therefore the science of assumptions with regard to 

 the real soul ; for it is bound to make nothing, but to assume or take 

 up what is given in experience ; and fact shows what our souls are 

 by what they do and feel, and completes the substance of the know- 

 ledge by embracing the facts of revelation. In short psychology 

 accepts the inner man, with all the motives, senses, and form of the 

 outer; and its problems refer either to his associates, or if they are 

 deeper than that world, to inner men again in a new manly orbit; 

 and so on through benches and choirs of manliness until the answer 

 comes from the human mouth somewhere. The knowledge of the 

 world is therefore the analogue, as it is the beginning, of all the 

 knowledge of the soul. And men, women and children are our only 

 faculties, the actors in all, and the accountants of all, up to the very 

 throne of God. Psychology is thus not abstract, but dramatic and 

 allegorical. 



Mental philosophy under the same aspect becomes equally tangi- 

 ble, for mind impersonated (and there is no other) is its object. 

 Mental philosophy is always some man endeavoring to see his image 

 either in himself, or in his fellows. The disciples of the schools 

 look for it in the masters, and the masters either in their own con- 

 sciousness, or in the works of their fellow men. That is to say, it 

 is men of mind who are the study of the philosopher. Abstractions 



