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HEREDITY. 



The Resident 

 Life, 



Heredity 

 Demonstrates 

 the Soul. 



Psychic 

 Impressions. 



chemical combinations have not. The first process 

 of digestion may be purely chemical, but the 

 second is vital and cannot be duplicated by any 

 chemical process. No phenomena of life, beyond 

 the first stages of digestion, are explicable upon 

 a purely chemical basis. 



3. We know that man is a soul because the 

 resident life controls the physical organism. 

 Every function and action, voluntary or invol- 

 untary, is the manifestation of something that 

 lies back of the brain and nervous system. 



4. We know that man is a soul because in the 

 process of reproduction, functional potency de- 

 termines transmission. The physical organism 

 may be mutilated, as in the removal of a hand, 

 yet the offspring inherits the perfect hand; but 

 if we continue to amputate the member for gen- 

 eration after generation, until we destroy the func- 

 tion of the hand, it will no longer be transmitted. 

 This indicates plainly that soul-form and function, 

 not physical organism, determine the heredity, 

 and that life inheres in the soul rather than the 

 body. 



5. We know that man is a soul because of a 

 mother's power to impress the developing embryo. 

 There is no anatomical connection between the 

 nervous systems of the two, yet it is an established 

 fact that the mental states of the mother make 

 their impression upon the forming life t such an 

 extent that extreme excitement, unnatural longing 

 or a sudden fright may produce abnormalities 

 (birthmarks) in her offspring, thus proving con- 

 clusively that their psychical natures are not only 



