DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



tion between spiritual qualities and 

 physical matter was almost unknown. 



The contradistinction between soul 

 and body is certainly a fact, a general 

 experience. But neither the individual 

 nor the race realizes this fact suddenly 

 or all at once. The knowledge of the 

 distinction between the physical and 

 the spiritual sphere, with their differ- 

 ent characteristics and qualities, pro- 

 ceeds step by step, being the result of 

 slowly advancing evolution. 



The child and the savage remain un- 

 conscious of any discrimination be- 

 tween soul and body, and even for the 

 more cultivated man, the border be- 

 tween the two is vague and undeter- 

 mined. According to the psychologic 

 order of man's evolution we might 

 therefore expect that the problem as 

 to this relationship would appear at a 

 comparatively late date, and even then 

 be of importance only to a reduced 

 number of more cultivated individuals. 

 But, on the contrary, experience shows 

 that this question occupies the thoughts 



