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power of the Psyche. A force is not a power in itself, it is 

 merely an expression for a law of action in matter. 



The intimate nature of force is entirely hidden from human 

 contemplation. Again, in like manner, as we recognise force 

 in the phenomena of matter by our senses through the intellect, 

 we recognise power in the fulfilment of the effort of the will 

 on our muscles, etc., by our self-consciousness, and we may 

 legitimately, on the principle already stated, attribute it also 

 to the animal. Power, therefore, differs from force in that the 

 latter is attributable to matter only. An immaterial power has 

 been given to the animal so as to put it in possession of such 

 efficacy, or deputed power as may be necessary for those peculiar 

 manifestations of the constructional material forces of its or- 

 ganised body, and the manifestation of those instinctive actions 

 for the fulfilment of which the organism has been provided. 



7. All trustworthy investigators of this subject have 

 come to the conclusion that man in his constitution consists 

 of three elements — a corporeal, a psychical, and a spiritual ; 

 and the direct, as well as the indirect evidence supplied by 

 the revealed record, fully confirms this conclusion. 



8. The Psyche in man must be assumed as the instinctive 

 element of his threefold constitution. Upon its deputed 

 efficacy depends that determinate and co-ordinate action of all 

 those physico-chemical forces which are collectively engaged in 

 the development of his body from the ovum, and in his life-long 

 structural modifications and physiological actions. In the 

 form of the human Psyche also are developed all those fully 

 completed structural arrangements in the human body, to the 

 nature and character of which I have already directed your 

 attention. In the Psyche of man also are based all those 

 instincts, emotions, appetites, and passions, which, stronger, 

 keener, and more numerous than in the animal, were con- 

 ferred on man for his higher purpose and greater enjoyment, 

 so long as subject to his higher principle ; but which have, 



