THE BEING AND FACULTIES OF MAN 



IN KEFEKENCE TO 



NATURAL MAGIC. 



CHAPTER I. 



Material and immaterial nature of man Body Mind Life 

 Feeling External matter Touch Separation and connection 

 of all these Plato and the soul Electricity Epicurus Bishop 

 Berkeley David Hume Consciousness and matter Conscious- 

 ness and the immaterial Reciprocal contact Man's primary 

 perceptive power Its contact with and knowledge of matter 

 and the immaterial Its proximity to the infinite Cause of the 

 Epicurean error Berkeley's blunder the other way Cause of 

 Hume's error Self-deception in philosophy Fallacy in a 



MAN is a being with two natures, one of which is physical 

 and material, the other immaterial, or metaphysical as it 

 is called, and both are intimately but mysteriously and 

 incomprehensibly united in all that is known of actual 

 and practicable human existence and action. The 

 physical portion of man's being we may examine by the 

 light of science, and perfectly and accurately know ; but 

 the metaphysical or immaterial portions of his being, com- 

 prehending the three widely distinct and separate though 

 co-operating and co-acting departments of MIND, LIFE, 

 and FEELING, are subject to no law of science with which 

 we are acquainted, and are in their elementary composi- 



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