EXTRACT IV. 



A STUDY IN CONTINUATION OF THAT ON THE 

 DWELLING-PLACE OF THE MIND OR EGO. 



IT has been held, " all along the ages," that man is made 

 up of mind and matter, and interpolated in, or engrafted 

 on, the continuity of this belief, we find references to the 

 indwelling in humanity, as distinguished from animality, of 

 a third principle in this complex, known as spirit. These 

 three individual entities or principles, therefore, constitute 

 the great verities, physical and metaphysical, known to 

 and discussed by philosophy from its origin in the pre- 

 historic ages down to the present day ; the nature of each, 

 their relative importance in the economy of the tripartite 

 whole, and their relationships to each other in the present 

 life and future destiny of being, all affording ample and 

 never-ending subjects for the keen scrutiny of the acutest 

 intellects, and the subtlest exercise of the most persuasive 

 pens and tongues amongst the learned of the successive 

 periods of the world's history. 



In contributing this attempt at a further elucidation of 

 such a well-worn subject, it seems to us unnecessary to 

 enter into an expiscation of its genesis and evolution, we 

 shall therefore content ourselves with an expression of 

 our belief in the verity of this system of knowledge, which 

 inter-penetrates, surrounds, and innervates all the teaching 

 of the men of " light and leading " known to philosophy, 

 ancient and modern. 



The summary of the three great principles or entities 

 entering into the composition of man seems to us com- 

 plete and impossible to improve upon, i.e. matter, mind, 



