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theory of life and mind, says that this soul or spirit 

 must either, if now existing, be a passive spectator of the 

 action of the living being connected with it, or else that 

 he has no existence during this present life, but is to be 

 constituted by a divine act after the death of the living 

 being. 



In either case, I cannot identify this soul with myself, 

 for I know that I exist now, and that I act, and that what 

 I do may be right or wrong, and that whether right or 

 wrong, it is my act, which I cannot repudiate. 



In this search for information about myself from 

 eminent thinkers of different types, I seem to have learnt 

 one lesson, that all science and philosophy and every form of 

 human speech is about objects capable of being perceived 

 by the speaker and the hearer ; and that when our thought 

 pretends to deal with the Subject it is really only dealing 

 with an Object under a false name. The only proposition 

 about the Subject, namely, " I am," cannot be used in the 

 same sense by any two of us, and, therefore, it can never 

 become science at all. 



END OF PART I. 



