"REV. A. R. WHATKLY, D.D. 0^^ IMMORTALITY. 23 



" It is 110 longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me " reveals 

 a Divine mysticism that transcends both Western and Oriental 

 systems of psychology. 



Dr. Whately has read a most interesting and suggestive paper^ 

 which calls for very careful and thoughtful perusal. 



Professor Langhorne Orchard said : The key-line of the Paper 

 is, I think, that near the beginning of p. 11 — "Our regenerated 

 self -consciousness — born anew in God." The Author's aim seems to 

 be the showing that, to those who, through their personal faith in 

 Christ, are spiritually regenerate, the strongest evidence, indeed 

 the complete proof, of their immortality is given by a spiritual 

 intuition — this spiritual intuition being an affirmation of the highest 

 consciousness when in communion with God. This is a perfectly 

 intelligible proposition, and reminds me of the words of the Lord 

 Jesus Christ — " This is life eternal, to know Thee, the only true 

 God, and Jesus Christ AYhom Thou hast sent." It also reminds me 

 of the belief of our late President, Sir G. G. Stokes, that all life 

 proceeds from the action of Spirit, and therefore eternal life has its 

 author in the Eternal Spirit, Professor Schafer's assertion, in his 

 Dundee Address, that by a process of "gradual evolution " life may 

 have originated from that which itself had not life, is a mere 

 assertion devoid of proof, indefensible as a scientific statement. 



In criticizing James's Empirical theory of personality, the 

 Author points out that " there is a deeper basis of personality than 

 the succession of psychic states." And, with all respect to one of 

 greatest psychologists, the Empirical theory is absurd, for it 

 contradicts the idea which it seeks to explain. Personality is not 

 the sum or the product of a multitude of conscious states, for the 

 personal idea, or notion, is there from the first. The first state of 

 my consciousness is as truly raine as is the hundredth. Nor is 

 personality explained by Bosanquet's System theory, for (as shown at 

 the beginning of p. 19), the two words — "personality " and " system ' 

 —express diff'erent ideas. In fact, to have a system is not the same 

 as to he a system. 



Further, the notion of Personality is with us from the first. It is 

 innate ; but the idea of Si/stern is acquired through experience. 

 Sleep does not maks a gap in our consciousness of our existence. 



Mr. Martin L. Rouse, B.A., said : Although the individuality 

 of the soul is specially dwelt upon in Dr. AVhately's paper, he 



