122 HEREDITY. 



Kahnis and Luthardt substantially agreeing with 

 him. There is more than one hero in scholarship 

 leaning with massive arm upon the discussions which 

 have been put forward by Lotze and Schoberlein and 

 Ulrici, on these overawing themes. 



If it be suggested that in the glorified universe 

 there will be a restoration of other beings beside 

 man, what shall we say ? We are not called on to 

 say any thing in this German symposium, but Scho- 

 berlein is. I am anxious to have you push him to the 

 wall if you can. I am willing you should ask him 

 definitely whether he thinks any other part of the 

 present world besides man's body will ever have a 

 transfiguration in the next world. Schoberlein is 

 not reluctant to speak even on that perplexing but 

 majestic theme. " Christ, by the spiritualization of 

 his body, as taken out of the bosom of nature, has 

 already consecrated nature itself to an ultimate 

 transfiguration. On the basis of this beginning, 

 therefore, will the Holy Ghost bring forth out of the 

 bosom of the perishing world a new world, — not 

 another, but the same world in a transfigured form, 

 even as the raised body of Christ was not another, 

 but the same in a transfigured condition. And 

 nature, as thus renewed, will exist under the anti- 

 thesis of heaven and earth, a ' new heaven and a 

 new earth.' And the whole circle of natural objects 

 will also come forth from death as integral parts of 

 the new eternal state of things." 



Do you say this is not definite enough, and do you 

 wish more perfect information concerning the trans- 



