IMMORTALITY 361 



One man /lears music, but it is but little more than 

 noise to him. In another it excites a rapturous emotion, 

 though both hear precisely the same notes. So is it with 

 painting. Again, one man has the emotion of philan- 

 thropy, which would embrace the whole world if possible ; 

 another feels nothing of the sort, and only cares for his 

 family ; or it may be even for himself alone. 



Are these emotions to be limited to the senses, or are 

 they ethereal, psychical vibrations, though they may have 

 been set in motion through the material agency of the 

 senses ? 



If it be said a man would not have had them at all 

 without a brain ; the answer is. Could they have come out 

 of a material chaos? It is more probable that they are 

 part and parcel of Life. They are in accordance with 

 natural laws in the ethereal world, and are echoes in 

 man's spirit of the Universal Spirit of God. 



" Harmonies," whether in colours or sounds as compared 

 by men, are but revelations of possibilities of natural laws 

 framed by God. 



If Evolution has been necessary to develop Man from 

 a Monad, why should it stop ? That it should cease as 

 far as the body goes is reasonable ; because man can 

 make loo/s and so there is no need to convert his limbs, 

 mouth and teeth into instruments ; but he has passed 

 the boundary line, not only in corporeal manufacture, but 

 in acquiring self-consciousness based on the power of 

 realising abstract ideas. This has opened out a new 

 science — Human Psychology — and as physiology is the 

 science dealing with the evolution of bodily life, so human 

 psychology is the science of the evolution of the human 

 soul ; and the great question is, if man's body has reached 

 the terrestrial goal, may not man's soul be just beginning 

 a corresponding career to be pursued hereafter ? 



