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potentially within them. The natural fleshly body 

 is simply the receptacle, the womb, in which the 

 new bod} r is invisibly generated and qualified, up to 

 the hour when, the crude flesh falling away, it shall 

 pass into the heavenly state, and spring forth into its 

 full beauty and actuality." 



The nightingale sings in the lime-trees on the 

 Gottingen wall, and the curtain falls here; but an- 

 other week we shall listen further to this symposium. 

 At these accordant propositions from theological and 

 biological teachers, Harrison begins to grow pale, 

 and judges that it will be necessary for him to prove 

 much more than he has done already, if he is to 

 undermine the doctrine of immortality from the point 

 of view of modern philosophy in its widest range. 



THE LECTURE. 



In the field of the battle of Waterloo there was a 

 concealed ditch of Oheim, into which regiments in 

 retreat, pushed on mercilessly by their companions 

 and pursuers in the rear, were cast alive until the 

 gap was full, and then the hosts who were escaping 

 from death passed across the chasm in safety on the 

 bridge of their dead predecessors. The ditch of 

 Oheim, in the battle of Waterloo between the theis- 

 tic and materialistic forms of the theory of evolution, 

 is hereditary descent. How are we to fill up the 

 chasm between life in the parent and life in the 

 child, and use only the narrow mechanical theory of 

 the origin of living tissues and of the soul? Say 

 what you please of the subtler forms of German ma- 



