1 1 6 Life and Matter [chap, yl 



soul is always immortal " where a soul can 

 be discerned " : the question to ask con- 

 cerning any given object is whether it has 

 a soul or meaning or personal underlying 

 reality at all. 



Those who think that reality is limited 

 to its terrestrial manifestation doubtless have 

 a philosophy of their own, to which they 

 are entitled and to which at any rate they 

 are welcome ; but if they set up to teach 

 others that monism signifies a limitation of 

 mind to the potentialities of matter as at 

 present known ; if they teach a pantheism 

 which identifies God with nature in this 

 narrow sense ; if they hold that mind and 

 what they call matter are so intimately 

 connected that no transcendence is possible ; 

 that, without the cerebral hemispheres, 

 consciousness and intelligence and emotion 

 and love, and all the higher attributes 

 towards which humanity is slowly advancing, 

 would cease to be ; that the term " soul " 

 signifies " a sum of plasma-movements in the 

 ganglion cells " ; and that the term " God " 



