88 HEREDITY. 



" 4. We do not diminish the supreme place of the 

 spiritual facts in life and in philosophy by admitting 

 these spiritual facts to have a relation with molecular 

 and organic facts in the human organism; provided 

 that we never forget how small and dependent is 

 the part which the study of the molecular and 

 organic phenomena must play in moral and social 

 science. 



" 5. Those whose minds have been trained in the 

 modern philosophy of law cannot understand what 

 is meant by sensation, thought, and energy existing 

 without any basis of molecular change ; and to talk 

 to them of sensation, thought, and energy continuing 

 in the absence of any molecules whatever, is precisely 

 such a contradiction in terms as to suppose that 

 civilization will continue in the absence of any men 

 whatever. 



" 6. Yet man is so constituted, as a social being, 

 that the energies which he puts out in life mould 

 the minds, characters, and habits of his fellow-men ; 

 so that each man's life is, in effect, indefinitely pro- 

 longed in human society. This is a phenomenon 

 quite peculiar to man and to human society, and of 

 course depends on there being men in active associa- 

 tion with each other. 



" 7. Lastly, as a corollary, it may be useful to 

 retain the words ' soul ' and ' future life ' for their 

 associations ; provided we make it clear that we mean 

 by soul the combined faculties of the living organism, 

 and by future life the subjective effect of each man's 

 objective life on the actual lives of his fellow-men." 

 (Nineteenth Century.') 



