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authority of self-evident truth ? See ; there is a stack 

 of books, I might have piled it half as high as the 

 roof of this Temple, turning on the metaphysical 

 inquiry whether conscience is really final authority, 

 whether it results from the plan of our nature, or 

 whether it might not have been different had our en- 

 vironment been different. On the physiological side 

 yonder is another stack of books, that I might have 

 piled half as high as the roof of this Temple, and 

 turning, in large part, upon the same question. 



1. None of the five theories, except the fifth, accounts 

 for man's sense of unity and identity. 



2. The theory of life, therefore, is the only one 

 that covers all the facts in the case. 



3. Lionel Beale does not hesitate to say that " the 

 vital power of the highest form of bioplasm in nature 

 is the living I." (Bioplasm, p. 209, London, 1872.) 



4. Even Spencer and Darwin are obliged to use 

 the word " innate." 



5. Since a structuring power must exist before 

 any thing can be structured, the plan of the body is 

 innate in its co-ordinating or structuring power. 



6. The plan of the soul, including its necessary 

 beliefs and the conscience, is also. 



7. The pretence that the conscience and the mathe- 

 matical axioms are merely the inherited effects of 

 environment and experience, and might have been 

 different had experience been different, is thus 

 answered. 



8. There are, therefore, innate tendencies not de- 

 rived from our environment ; there are primary be- 



