THE TRIPARTITE NATURE OF MAN. 



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The Christian receives in regeneration the earnest — not the fulness 

 — of a new and Divine uncreated Spirit, 



Professor Langhorne Orchard was one of those who has joined 

 in a very hearty vote of thanks to the able Author for a most 

 interesting Paper. We trust that our indebtedness to him will, 

 through God's good Providence, increase and grow. 



The subject of the Paper is one of the most difficult problems in 

 philosophy, and the way in which it had been treated gave evidence 

 of much patient investigation and careful thought. Our attention 

 had been drawn to the remarkable similarities which existed between 

 spirit and soul ; and also, though not so successfully, to the 

 dissimilarities. 



The problem remains still unsolved ; but it will be our own fault 

 if the Author do not succeed in conducting us far on the road to 

 a solution. In the second paragraph of page 6 is a valuable idea 

 as to connection of the ego with three states of consciousness pertain- 

 ing respectively to body, soul, and spirit. 



The true view of the tripartite man appears to be that the 

 tripartite arrangement represents the self in relation or communion 

 with his environment. This is threefold : — (1) the material and 

 corporeal ; (2) the sentient, appetitive, impulsive, desiring, 

 emotional, intelligent, possessing life and force ; (3) the source 

 of life and force. To each of these three kinds of environment 

 corresponds a self-affinity, faculty or means of communion, which 

 we name body, soul and spirit, respectively. 



A question more easily asked than answered is : — How may the 

 soul be definitely distinguished from the spirit ? Holy Scripture 

 and science tell us that life and force have their source and origin 

 in spirit. " It is the spirit that quickeneth " (" maketh to live "). 

 The soul lives, but does not give life ; it is the passive, rather than 

 the active, ego. Active thought and energy, which seek communion 

 and knowledge of things spiritual, have their dwelling-place in 

 spirit. 



Mr. Theodore Roberts thought that difficulties were raised 

 in connection with the subject by taking metaphorical expressions 

 as if they described actualities, and he considered the Author of the 



