190 HEREDITY. 



When God creates germinal matter, to be used as 

 the basis of the career of an individual human life, 

 he, out of the omnipotent power of the universe, 

 brings into existence what we call the gloved hand, 

 or bioplasm ; then he locks with it an immaterial or 

 ungloved hand, which we call the soul. The two 

 hands come into existence together. Lotze denies 

 the theory of the pre-existence of the soul. But the 

 ungloved hand does not depend for its existence on 

 the gloved hand. We talk of matter as if it were a 

 hand, and not a glove with a hand in it. So far as 

 matter is inert, it is a glove only. This glove may 

 be taken off. The supersensible reality at the core 

 of it, the spirit, is God, and is indestructible. That 

 supersensible reality, the glove taken off, may lock 

 in with the other hand, and thus the Divine spirit 

 and the soul, which the Spirit has created and up- 

 held, the flesh dropped, the glove thrust away, exist 

 forever locked together. [Applause.] 



