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HEREDITY. 



The Study of 



Man. 



Relations of the 

 Psychical and 

 Physical 



Natures. 



Man a Psychic 

 Organism, 



An Essential to 

 Right Thinking 



What is man? Man, physiologically con- 

 sidered, is an organism of bones, muscles, organs, 

 nerves, etc., adapted to the performances of the 

 several functions of the resident life. Man, 

 psychologically, is a soul, a complex, organized, 

 individualised ego, developing and expressing 

 itself on the earth plane through and by means of 

 its physical organism. So long as man is man 

 his physical and psychical natures form the com- 

 plete counterpart of each other, act and react upon 

 each other, limit and modify the expressions of 

 each other. Through the physical organism the 

 material universe influences and becomes known 

 to the psychic man. Through the psychic man 

 the physical organism receives transforming im- 

 pressions. The dividing line between the two 

 natures no man can draw. That man has a 

 psychical nature that is superior to and in a sense 

 independent of the physical organism is now very 

 generally conceded. / state without fear of suc- 

 cessful contradiction that man is primarily a soul. 

 Immanent in, but not inherent in the body ; opera- 

 tive through, but not dependent upon, the brain 

 and nervous system. 



It is not necessary that the reader accept the 

 foregoing propositions in order to appreciate what 

 I have to say about heredity, brain building and 

 soul growth. It is essential, however, that every 

 person should realize that he is a soul. Without 

 the acceptance of this fact, we have no abiding 

 foundaton upon which to build a science of mind, 

 a system of education, a moral code or a philoso- 

 phy of life. Those who deny the existence of the 

 soul and the Immanent God have failed utterly to 



