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Translating into the ordinary speech of mortals 

 this first outburst of wisdom, we find it to mean that 

 there can be no existence of. the soul apart from the 

 body. Science has proved that there is a molecular 

 tremor connected with all thought, emotion, and 

 choice ; and if death is really our total disembodi- 

 ment, then, for a man who holds that there must be 

 a tremor of some form of matter connected with 

 choice, thought, and emotion, there is no proof of 

 immortality. This essayist is probably of opinion 

 that religious science teaches that death is not only 

 an unfettering of the soul, but a real and total dis- 

 embodiment of it in every sense. Posthumous influ- 

 ence is all the immortality in which he can believe. , 



Let now the German symposium speak. This me- 

 diaeval teacher of systematic theology, Professor 

 Schoberlein of Gottingen University, on his own 

 field, his native heather, opens his lips ; and this is 

 the first thing we hear from him. I give you exactly 

 his language, out of a volume he published at Heidel- 

 berg in 1872, called " Die Geheimisse des Glaubens," 

 a work of reputation as excellent as that of its author 

 in German theology: "God has destined soul and 

 body to exist in eternal unity with each other. There 

 is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 

 Bodilessness implies a hinderance in free self-reserva- 

 tion. The highest perfection of the future, no less 

 than of the present life, calls for the corporeity of 

 the soul." (See Professor LA CROIX'S translation 

 of Schoberlein, Meth. Quar. Rev., October, 1877, 

 p. 687.) 



