DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 19 



driven to a gross materialism. If sci- 

 ence had proved that the belief in a 

 bodily resurrection is untenable, why 

 should it not be able to demonstrate 

 that all religious doctrines were delu- 

 sions? This reasoning seemed to many 

 so natural that many scientific facts 

 contributed evidence in their favor 

 even when these facts pointed entirely 

 in the opposite direction. 



There was, however, no necessity to 

 think and reason as these two main 

 schools in our age have done. One 

 might also from the beginning, have 

 taken the same road and arrived at the 

 same conclusion as, for instance, Gran- 

 felt in his "Christian Dogmatic." "It 

 has been demonstrated beyond doubt 

 by natural science," says this prominent 

 theologian, "that the matter of a human 

 body is, even here on earth, in continu- 

 ous circulation, so that in the course of 

 a few weeks all atoms of the whole 

 body are replaced by new atoms. The 

 only lasting attribute of the soul dur- 

 ing this process is the spiritual body, 



