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kind. ‘To carry out this wonderful process on the part of the 
microscopic primary cell. 
Let us make this clear ; the life, comprising the intelli- 
gence, energy and subjective consciousness of the primary cell, 
unfolds and expands to produce the growth and formation 
of its specific organism. ‘This unfolding and expanding of the 
life, or soul of the primary cell proceeds pari passu with the 
growth and formation of the organism. Haekel says a new 
born babe has neither intelligence nor consciousness. I consider 
his statement erroneous, and I do not hesitate to say that a 
new born living child possesses an intelligent subjective 
consciousness, which gradually unfolds into an objective or 
individual consciousness. The relations then, subsisting 
between matter and spirit are definite and distinct ; and no 
scientist of repute ignores the operations of the universal spirit 
in the evolution of the material universe, nor fails to recognize 
the fact that a supreme power continually energizes and 
controls all the natural phenomena in both animal and veget- 
able kingdoms. Man’s life, intelligence and individuality 
then, constitute his spiritual nature, and show his relation to 
God from whom it came and to whom, after dissolution, it will 
return. Man’s soul 1s in fact an integral part of the universal 
soul, or spirit. Memory, the will, reason and judgment are 
but attributes of the spirit and part of the intellectual arma- 
mentarium. 
As I cannot conceive of shape or form without matter, I 
will not attempt to show what the spirit, or soul of man 
will be like when it becom2s separated from the material body 
at death ; nor will I discuss the qualitative and quantative 
properties of the soul in man and other animals, but I will 
leave it for others who may think themselves more competent 
to say whether or not, it be possible for a non-material spirit 
to assume and maintain for an indefinite period of time the 
shape, form and identity of the material human body with 
which it was associated prior to dissolution. 
