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where it ends, — just as, looking back through the 

 ages and seeing two great men standing side by- 

 side we can hardly tell, when we say Aristotle, 

 whether we speak of the intellectual kingdom of 

 science, or whether we speak of philosophy when 

 we say Plato. 



But one thing we feel certain of, — that our cen- 

 tury has had a method, has made discoveries, has 

 achieved exact results, by which philosophy has 

 become almost a science of certainty. And so far 

 have we advanced that when we look at life in all 

 its manifestations we instinctively feel that life is a 

 manifestation of a power, a force, a spirit which 

 constitutes its glory. 



What Plato and Socrates called psyche has now 

 become to us our commonest philosophic thought. 

 We think of ourselves as psychological beings. 

 We do not come by our souls through any dogma 

 of religion, but as the highest philosophy man has 

 had in the world. 



We can now look about us and see that, in all 

 races and indeed in all historic times, man has 

 been conscious of having a soul. The thought of 

 this Psyche, this Soul, this Inner Mind, related as 

 it must be to the whole of that power which is the 

 spring of all being, fills us with hope, raises us up 

 to great conceptions, great pleasures, and great 

 pains. As love is the hope of our race, so the soul 

 is the conscious master of it. 



Multitudes now rising higher and higher in the 



