18 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



the conception of the body's impor- 

 tance to the soul in a future life, must 

 create new expressions, and the logic 

 of the old conceptions themselves in- 

 dicates what forms they would take. 



When the belief in a restoration of 

 the union between the two factors in 

 a human being was suddenly and al- 

 most violently shaken by natural sci- 

 ence, there seemed at first no other 

 way out of the difficulty than to choose 

 between them and declare either the 

 soul or the body as the essential part. 



Those who felt inclined toward the 

 former alternative evidently found 

 themselves confined to a one-sided 

 idealism of little vitality, because an 

 existence without body seems as 

 shadowy and unsatisfactory to man in 

 the present as in ancient times. An 

 increasing weakening of the intensity 

 of religious life would be the natural 

 consequence. 



Those again who, because of a more 

 realistic tendency, insisted upon the es- 

 sentiality of our body, were logically 



