DAHWIN ON THE ORIGIN OP CONSCIENCE. 117 



This is a perfectly demonstrable result, coming 'from 

 the activity of what the Germans call the spirit 

 within the man. The inner wheel can move the 

 wheel into which it mashes, and that can move the 

 outer. It is very evident that the two inner wheels 

 may be taken out from the outermost wheel, and yet 

 continue their action and interaction. If the second 

 wheel had 'the power of assuming to itself an envel- 

 ope, or outer wheel, it might in another state of 

 existence do so, and the fundamental plan of the 

 wheels not be changed at all. We are more and more 

 drawn by German biological and theological research 

 to this threefold division of man as explaining the 

 union between spirit and matter. We are led to the 

 idea that there may be a third somewhat, or spiritual 

 body affected from without, and affected also from 

 within, and acquiring power from its contact with 

 the spirit to clothe itself even when the present phys- 

 ical husk has been dropped off. 



It becomes us here to depend on a wealth of exact 

 citation, for we must not misrepresent by the breadth 

 of a hair either the German or the English positions. 

 Delitzsch speaks with a face full of radiance : " The 

 power of life, that inconvenient and yet indispensa- 

 ble conception of exact investigation, is something 

 exalted above the physical forces of attraction and 

 repulsion : how much more, then, is the conscious 

 soul, and still more the self-conscious spirit ! Force, 

 life, soul, spirit, form an ascending climax." (Biblical 

 Psychology, T. & T. Clark's Foreign Theol. Lib., p. 93.) 

 " Samuel, who came up out of Hades, had, therefore, 



