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DAVID ANDERSON-BERRY M.D., LL.D., ETC., ON 



quoted on p. 22, where they are called properties. And I know of 

 no great thinker who denies the existence of these two, mental 

 and physical, spiritual and material, although many question or deny 

 what underlies them. 



To Mr. Hoste I can only repeat Kant's words, " The things which 

 we envisage are not that in themselves for which we take them, 

 neither are their relations so constituted as they appear to us." 



Reason is a primary faculty by which such realities as Time and 

 Space are apprehended in the way I describe on p. 15. It is an organ 

 of direct knowledge. 



The Judgment, on the other hand, deals with conceptions formed 

 for it by the Understanding. Quite a different matter. 



To Dr. Schofield I would reply : 



(1) I deprecated the theological bias on p. 13, and here it enters. 

 Theologically I am a trichotomist. Man is a trinity in unity — Body, 

 Soul and Spirit. 



Spirit is that part that knows and allies him with the spiritual 

 creation and gives him God-consciousness ; Soul is the seat of per- 

 sonality and gives him self-consciousness ; and Body, as the seat of 

 the senses, allies him to the material creation and gives him world- 

 consciousness. Fallen man broke away from God when his soul 

 yielded to temptations presented to it through the body, and he 

 died spiritually. Hence, the scriptural expression for the combina- 

 tion of body and soul uninfluenced by the spirit — a natural or 

 psychical or soulish body. 



But speaking from the standpoint of substance, Man is built up 

 of only two, matter and spirit. Matter, that substance of which 

 the body is made ; spirit, that substance of which soul and spirit 

 are constituted. Let us not confound terms that speak of substance 

 with those that speak of function. 



(2) The difference ? Simply that between Space and Time or 

 between what is matter of fact, the middle of a field, and that which 

 is the fact of the matter, the middle of a century. 



(3) There are four great realities in this world of ours, matter and 

 spirit, time and space. The history of the world's thinking from 

 the dawn of history, from the Vedas and Vedantas, through Thales, 

 Parmenides, Zeno, Socrates, Plato, Duns Scotus, Thomas, Abelard, 

 Descartes, Spinoza, to Spencer and Paul Bergson, is a history of 

 Idealism that denies the existence of matter ; Materialism that 



