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Ulrici, and many others of his school, who are 

 given to the investigation of man from the light of 

 merely natural science, adopt this threefold division 

 as the outcome of their research from the point of 

 view of mere reason. In previous listening to Ulrici 

 and to Lotze, we have heard the former speak of a 

 body of a physical sort ; then of a third somewhat, 

 or ethereal enswathment of the spirit, a spiritual 

 body ; and, lastly, of spirit itself. Thus the three- 

 fold division of man is adopted not only by the bio- 

 logical, but by the theological teachers : by the 

 former in the name of exact research under the mi- 

 croscope and scalpel, and by the latter in the name 

 of a careful dissection of Scriptural texts. It is a 

 sign of the times here on the walls of Gottingen, 

 when our Delitzsch, who has given himself to exe- 

 getical study, reaches through Biblical proof-texts 

 precisely the same idea of the threefold division of 

 man at which Ulrici has arrived by the methods 

 of mere reason. 



The English symposium has been accustomed to a 

 narrow view. Frederick Harrison does not believe 

 that there is in man any spiritual activity not con- 

 nected with changes in the matter of his present 

 physical body. He cannot imagine it possible that 

 there is in man a soul having the power of existence 

 apart from molecular change. Professor Huxley, 

 although he will not assert in definite terms as much 

 as Harrison has done, holds, nevertheless, that we are 

 absolutely sure only of the existence in ourselves of 

 two sets of phenomena, one physical, and the other 



