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we have a percipience of identity, and there must 

 be a perceiver of identity. As this percipience is 

 constant, the perceiver must be a unit from year to 

 year, although the body changes all its atoms every 

 few years. If Ulrici and Schoberlein and Lotze, 

 with the general assent of their compeers, do not 

 seem sound to certain omniscient writers for quar- 

 terly reviews on our self- illumined New England 

 shore, which has led the world in philosophy, and 

 which needs no enlightenment from Halle, or Leipsic, 

 or Gottingen, or Berlin; if Sir William Hamilton 

 happens to have said, fifteen years before this new 

 discussion came up, that such a theory is not very 

 important, — we of course shall dismiss it without any 

 attention to dates in connection with Sir William 

 Hamilton's opinion, or with Ulrici's and Lotze's 

 and Schuberlein's words here on the wall of Gotting- 

 en. But when we find five or six theological facul- 

 ties teaching much the same view, we shall listen to 

 Schoberlein when he says further : 



"We must come to the standpoint of an ideal 

 realism, which holds the middle path between a 

 materialistic deification of nature on the one hand, 

 and a spiritualistic contempt of it on the other. Pre- 

 cisely this is the standpoint of the Holy Scriptures. 

 In every position we shall take, our conscious pur- 

 pose will be, not to speculate without authority, but 

 simply to educe into fuller expression that which 

 appears to us as clearly involved in the Word of 

 inspiration itself. 



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