NATURAL SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY. 709 



practice of medicine." That was all right, because both the doctors of that firm 

 would have been in the quinine, morphine, calomel department, and that might 

 have caused a collision. 



But, young gentlemen, you have got to take me into partnership with you. 

 For you, without me, will not cover the whole man. If the whole body were an 

 €ye, where were the hearing ? If the whole man were a body, where were the 

 soul ? Specialists of the physical department of humanity, you need the preach- 

 er. It will be the sign of a broader science when you leave room on your shingle, 

 and in your theories, for him, the doctor of souls. 



I think there only are two grounds on which you can resist the partnership 

 for which I am pleading. 



First. — You can say there is no second department. You can say a man has 

 no soul; or, if he have what, by courtesy, may be called a soul, it is only refined 

 and sublimated matter. It bears only such relation to the grosser body as the 

 sunbeam bears to the lump of clay it beautifies — matter — only in another form. 

 Precisely this a great many doctors are saying. They deny the duality of life, 

 they run their craft against that philosophic current which has the sweep of all 

 historic time in its movement ; that stream which sprang from beneath the porches 

 of the Athenian academy, and flows with accepted music through all schools of 

 thought the affirmation, viz. of a dual nature in man. This you can do. You 

 can build the man up from protoplasm. You can say I am a lobster, converted 

 for the nonce into what is called a man. If I should be drowned lobsters will 

 quickly reconvert me into lobsterian protoplasm. You can say, as Huxley said 

 in a lecture on the physical basis of life, " All vital action may be the result of 

 the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And, if so, it must be 

 true in the same sense and to the same extent that the thoughts to which I am 

 now giving utterance and your thoughts regarding them are the expression of 

 molecular changes in the matter of life, which is the source of our other vital 

 phenomena." 



Now, when you adopt that creed, that there is but one thing in the universe, 

 and that one thing matter, when you have thus remanded to the same protoplas- 

 mic base, the fungus that clings to the rock, and the thoughts of Plato, or John 

 Milton (thoughts that wander through eternity) you are then ready to dismiss the 

 preacher. The partnership must be broken up. If you have ever admitted the 

 mind doctor into your counsels you may get rid of him at once. He is only an 

 impertinence. He stands for an unreality. He is only painting pictures which 

 death's dust will pretty soon quench. 



I will not say if this is your theory that your caUing is worth nothing. It is 

 worth while to soothe a toothache to day, though the tooth may have to be pulled 

 to-morrow. But I will say that so your profession is robbed of its chief grandeur. 

 You are not serving an immortal being. Your work has no immortal projection. 

 It is not a parabola, whose unfinished curve points past the stars. It is hke the 

 curve of a broken rainbow, one end of it veiled by a storm, and the other end 

 shooting down into the ground. And you who work at the ground end of the bow 



