LOTZE ON THE UNION OF SOUL AND BODY. 189 



modern thought are crystallizing around Lotze and 

 twenty other names which represent similar ranges 

 of investigation, and are departing more and more 

 from Bain and Hackel. Audiences do not often in 

 this country give the ear you have given in Boston 

 to this discussion ; and, therefore, here in Boston this 

 audience is calling attention to these themes for the 

 whole country. 



Hackel's Monism, which is one of the many forms 

 of materialism, sinks soul in matter. Not so the 

 subtler procedures of Lotze, not so Ulrici, not so 

 Schoberlein. We have an accredited, I had almost 

 said now firmly established, scheme of thought recog- 

 nizing the laws contained in the fifteen propositions 

 I have read to you, and asserting, in their name, the 

 possible existence of the soul in separation from the 

 body. 



When does the soul originate ? Lotze would not 

 have you think of the immaterial world, the Unseen 

 Holy beyond us, as separated from the visible uni- 

 verse. Souls, according to Lotze, do not come into 

 the world from afar. They are not rained down out 

 of some inaccessible region of the universe. They 

 originate in God, who is not far from every one of 

 us. He is omnipresent ; and, wherever he is, there is 

 the capability of creation. 



Soul meets its organism whenever and wherever 

 God calls that organism into existence. It is, accord- 

 ing to Lotze, a being which from its characteristic 

 nature is in immediate relation with the co-ordinat- 

 ing centres of the nervous organism and with what 

 goes on in them. 



