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part of man and is that to which alone 

 immortality is granted, how then shall 

 we account for the fact that the soul's 

 evolution, properly the one principal 

 object of man, must stand aside for the 

 body to such an extent that the body 

 utilizes, if not all yet at least the 

 largest part of man's time and energy? 

 To materialism this reply is given, but 

 then again this philosophy has been 

 unable to answer all those questions 

 which idealism alone could satisfactor- 

 ily explain. 



Now at last we understand the rea- 

 son for these contradictions. The two 

 world-conceptions suffer the same es- 

 sential deficiency of having overlooked 

 the fact that the body contains a spir- 

 itual organism, of the same importance 

 to man's future life as to his present. 

 In the theory here proposed material- 

 ism in a purified form melts into ideal- 

 ism, which latter thus receives the sup- 

 plement it hitherto has lacked as a 

 universal, satisfactory world-explana- 

 tion. We have barely outlined this 



