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perceptivity with the outer sphere of reality ; but though they 

 furnish elementary material for the action of volitionally controlled 

 evolutionary law in developing the character (all that makes for the 

 expression of the individual jjer se), it is to be borne in mind that 

 " each man is a soul, not has one, and he expresses his being in his 

 activity, his thinking, and his feeling. . . . Behind the rich 

 variety even of a Shakespeare or a Goethe there was an unmeasured 

 personality still unexpressed. All that psf/chology can do is to take 

 account of so much of personality as finds manifestation in different 

 men. But no science can penetrate into the inner self, for no man 

 can know another's mind." (Dr. Caldecott.)* 



So it seems to come to this — that any science or philosophy which 

 makes the assumption that the individual man or woman (as such) 

 is but a synthesis of those elementary factors which belong to states 

 of consciousness of the inferior order, is discredited at the outset, even 

 as Bergson has (on similar lines) discredited what he calls the "false 

 evolutionism " of Herbert Spencer. 



To the Christian believer, as his Easter Faith realizes itself in the 

 spiritual environment of the sacramental life of the Church, with 

 the experience of nineteen centuries of Christendom behind him, 

 " Immortality " emerges, not as a dogma, but as a central fact of his 

 consciousness, while the student of science, who is not enslaved by 

 a materialistic philosophy, can follow the reasoning of the great 

 Apostle, as with wonderful truthfulness to nature and language he 

 illustrates from the processes of nature the doctrine of the continuity 

 of sold and soul-function beyond the limits of its present relation to 

 the material body, in that magnificent fifteenth chapter of the First 

 Epistle to the Corinthians, in which he discusses the transcendent fact, 

 which, for the Christian man, has transmuted a philosophical 

 probability into the " sure and certain hope." 



The Lecturer's Reply. 

 There is not much that need be said. I am sorry that 

 Mr. Sutton should have been disappointed because I have not met 

 directly the question of universal immortalit}^, but that would have 

 left me too little time for the discussion of the central question. 



Introduction to The Inner Light, by A. R. Wliately, D.D. 



