282 PROGRESSIVE MAN. 



in man is that element in his economy on which his entire 

 welfare depends. 



Now, as the moral department of the spirit involves the 

 higher relations of our being, and assuming that you are 

 acquainted with the grounds on which our moral, and in 

 fact spiritual economy, involves responsibility, and the con- 

 sequences of such responsibility, it will be evident to you that 

 a breach in the moral department of our spiritual element 

 must affect the integrity of the entire human economy. 



4. By the term " entire human economy," I mean the en- 

 tire economy of man, as manifested in his physiological, 

 intellectual, and moral capabilities ; and I am anxious that 

 you should distinctly see how it is that the integrity of our 

 corporeal or physiological frame, the applicability of our in- 

 tellectual powers, and the free action of our moral faculties, 

 do all depend on the condition of the spiritual element of our 

 being. 



5. We have now reached a point from which we can look 

 back to the subjects of my first and second lectures. In the 

 first lecture I explained to you how the welfare and purpose 

 of the animal are provided for in its merely instinctive form 

 of consciousness, in virtue of its psychical element. In my 

 second lecture I explained how the welfare and purpose of 

 man on earth are provided for in his rational consciousness, 

 in virtue of what you will now recognise as his spiritual 

 element. 



We may now consider, therefore, the nature of animality 

 as consisting in a physiological structure, conditioned by an 

 immaterial element of a merely psychical character — i.e. as 

 before explained, an animal is a mere organism. 



The essence of humanity again consists in the human or- 

 ganism — i.e. the combined physiological and psychical element, 

 co-ordinate with, and subject to, the control of a spiritual 

 element. The essence of humanity in fact consists in a 

 spiritual element of which the co-ordinate organism is the in- 



