V. 



DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF CON- 

 SCIENCE. 



PBELTIDE ON CUKKENT EVENTS. 



TWENTY learned men, ten English and ten Ger- 

 man, assembled as a modern symposium, are walking 

 up and down on the wall of Gottingen. Listening 

 to their discussions, we find it impossible to under- 

 stand their references to the complex whole of man's 

 nature, unless we adopt Luther's division of the 

 human being into three parts, body, soul, and 

 spirit. We have been accustomed to speak of man 

 as body and soul only, and to make no distinction 

 between soul and spirit. We have used a twofold, 

 but Delitzsch and Schoberlein employ a threefold, 

 division of man's nature. When we recollect, how- 

 ever, the Biblical language, we find that Luther had 

 warrant for saying, as Delitzsch on the wall of Got- 

 tingen quotes him, that the Scripture divides man 

 into three parts : " God sanctify you through and 

 through, that thus your whole spirit, soul, and body 

 may be preserved blameless." Luther, in his exposi- 

 tion of the Magnificat for the year 1521, says that 



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