64 HEREDITY. 



cool-headed, critical scientist and by innocent 

 children. 



10. We know that man is a soul because every 

 saysscu g ' highly developed person, whether pagan or 

 Christian, anicient or modern, gradually but 

 surely becomes conscious of his super-physical 

 existence. He is conscious that the I, the ego, is 

 something that supercedes the brain, belongs to a 

 realm that is not physical and has the power to 

 exist as a conscious individuality independent of 

 its corporeal home. Socrates is not the only one 

 who could triumphantly say, "Bury me ? my body, 

 I suppose you mean; give that to the dogs for 

 aught I care, but Socrates' soul, and that is Socra- 

 tes, goes to be with the gods." 



I deem this consciousness of the soul's inde- 

 pendence the highest and strongest proof of its 

 existence as a super-physical being. True, not 

 . all have this consciousness, for not all are suffi- 



Consciousness the . . ..... 



Supreme ciently developed to possess it, but this does not 



Evidence. militate against its being the supreme evidence 



that man is a soul. The beauty of the world and 

 the pleasure of freedom are not to be decided by 

 the testimony of a toad living in a well, but 

 rather by the one that has enjoyed the liberty of 



Darkness cannot the garden in the sunlight of a June morning. 



Measure the So the powers and possibilities of a soul are 

 not to be measured by the consciousness of one 

 living a contracted, selfish life entombed in ma- 

 terialistic beliefs ; but rather by the consciousness 

 of those who have been born into the larger 

 life and have enjoyed the glorious privileges of 

 high intellectual culture and spiritual growth. 

 The foregoing propositions are too briefly 



