CHAPTER XIII 



INDUCTIVE EVIDENCE THE BASIS OF BELIEF OF THE 

 THEIST IN HUMAN IMMORTALITY 



The Soul as well as Life is not material, though inti- 

 mately bound up with it ; therefore it must be of the 

 nature of energy of some sort, perhaps a bundle of 

 vibrations of ether. 



If a vibration be set up in a medium, that vibration 

 must go on for ever, if no other force intervene to stop it. 



The same medium may be in motion with several 

 vibrations at the same time ; as we are all familiar with 

 the effects of an orchestra, the same air which enters our 

 ears carries many notes at once. Similarly the ether 

 carries many colours at the same moment into our pupils 

 when looking upon a picture or scenery. 



Hence if our souls have an ethereal basis (perhaps 

 identical with St. Paul's "spiritual body") there is 

 nothing inconceivable in the portion of ether constitut- 

 ing our soul-frame being agitated by numerous and 

 separate vibrations, recognisable as emotions, intellect, 

 conscience, etc. 



As our whole soul is bound up with the whole body, 

 so each individual element of the former would seem to 

 be specially correlated with localised portions of the 

 brain, so that mental inequalities are due to unequal 

 developments of their respective sites. 



We know from the sizes of the brain cavities of the 



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