V. 



DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF CON- 

 SCIENCE. 



PRELUDE ON CURRENT EVENTS. 



Twenty learned men, ten English and ten Ger- 

 man, assembled as a modern symposium, are walking 

 up and down on the wall of Gottingen. Listening 

 to their discussions, we find it impossible to under- 

 stand their references to the complex whole of man's 

 nature, unless we adopt Luther's division of the 

 human being into three parts, bod}-, soul, and 

 spirit. We have been accustomed to speak of man 

 as body and soul only, and to make no distinction 

 between soul and spirit. We have used a twofold, 

 but Delitzsch and Schoberlein employ a threefold, 

 division of man's nature. When we recollect, how- 

 ever, the Biblical language, we find that Luther had 

 warrant for saying, as Delitzsch on the wall of Got- 

 tingen quotes Mm, that the Scripture divides man 

 into three parts : " God sanctify you through and 

 through, that thus your whole spirit, soul, and body 

 ma)' be preserved blameless." Luther, in his exposi- 

 tion of the Magnificat for the year 1521, says that 



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