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produce even a working hypothesis that would 

 account satisfactorily for the phenomena of life 

 in any form much less its highest form, the 

 consciousness of man. 



There is an abundance of purely scientific 

 evidence to prove the existence of man as a psychic 

 ego independent of cerebration and nerve action. 

 Some of these evidences may be stated briefly as 

 follows. 



1. We know that man is a soul independent of 

 the brain because the rudiments of all the powers 

 of his subjective mind are present in the lowest 

 organisms that have neither brain nor nervous 

 system.* 



2. We know that man is a soul because vital 



action is not chemical action. Chemical action Vital versus 

 is destructive to an organism ; vital action is con- 

 structive. A vitalized organism has the power 

 of transforming other substances into itself; 



*"Unicellular organisms," says Dr. Gates, "possess all the 

 different froms of activity to be found in the higher ani- 

 mals. Thus the simplest cell can transform food into tissue 

 and other metabolic products; and this is the basis of all 

 the nutritive activities and processes of the higher animals ; 

 the cell can move part of itself and is capable of locomo- 

 tion; and this is the basis of all movement in the higher 

 animals brought about by bones and muscles. The cell can 

 feel a stimulus and respond, and this is the basis of the 

 sensory faculties of the higher animals ; the cell can repro- 

 duce itself by segmentation, and this is the basis of repro- 

 duction in higher animals ; the cell on dividing inherits the 

 actual qualities pf its parent mass, and this is the basis 

 of heredity; in short, the cell contains, in simplest form, 

 all of the activities to be found in man." For further con- 

 sideration of this proposition see "The Divine Pedigree of 

 Man," by Hudson. 



