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under his freedom of choice, become the sources of misery 

 and death. In the revealed record the term cAff, Flesh, 

 is applied to what I may be permitted to designate as a dis- 

 tinctive physiological feature in the human economy, that 

 combination of the Psyche and corporeal mechanism which 

 constitutes in man his organism properly so called. The 

 human organism is the animal in man. In it alone does 

 he resemble the animal Yet, nevertheless, he stands alone 

 among the organised beings of this globe, in his disobedience 

 to the laws of that organism, with the power over which he has 

 been entrusted, in virtue of his spiritual principle, for his own 

 benefit and enjoyment, and for the final purposes of his creation. 



9. The human body, developed under the influence of the 

 more extended efficacy of its indwelling Psyche, is fitted 

 thereby to serve as the instrument of that spiritual element 

 in the human constitution, in which consists the personality 

 of man. 



10. I have in a previous lecture brought under your con- 

 sideration those features in the spiritual element of man, in 

 which it differs from the Psyche of the animal and the Psyche 

 in man himself. "We found that in this element consists 

 the essence of his rational consciousness, in virtue of which 

 he is self-conscious, capable of thought properly so called ; of 

 language, which is merely the phonetic expression of thought ; 

 and of all those conceptions, intentions, and co-ordinated emo- 

 tions, which, manifested in language oral and written, or incor- 

 porated through the instrumentality of his material frame, 

 constitute those various forms of science and of art — those 

 multiform arrangements of social, political, and religious im- 

 port, which distinguish man from every form of animal. 



11. Man, in virtue of his possession of a spiritual prin- 

 ciple, by which alone he is capable of thought and speech, and 

 is impressed with the belief of moral truth and divine agency, 

 stands alone among the orgamsed beings of this globe. 



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