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DR. GREGORY SMITH, ON PSYCHOLOGY. 



We know also that " in Adam all die," and that Eve is " the 

 mother of all living." Is it not then to be inferred that by the fall, 

 the natural spirit of human life became tainted, this taint affecting 

 the material — otherwise untainted element. 



The heavens had probably become unclean before Adam's creation, 

 by reason of Satan's fall ; the natural breath of life passing through 

 Divinity would, for Adam, become purified, rendering him sinless ; 

 but, not being itself Divine, leaving him in a condition in which he 

 was liable to fall, "aseptic," not "antiseptic." 



If, as I am inclined to think, the " Soul " is the combination 

 of Spirit, natural for all men, and Divine also for Christians only, 

 with the body, all separated at death, the Divine Spirit alone 

 being reunited to the Christian's body in Eesurrection, the command 

 to sanctify the " Soul " (set it on the Lord's side) becomes intelligible 

 instead of mysterious. 



These remarks are not given as dogma, but to promote thought 

 and enquiry into the matter from Holy Scripture, which alone can 

 throw any light on this particular branch of the subject of 

 " Psychology." 



The Eev. John Tuckwell, M.RA.S., said : We have all listened 

 I am sure with very great interest to this paper. Like the last 

 speaker, I could not help feeling that there were many questions I 

 should like to have had answered. May I say how the matter presents 

 itself to me ? All our psychology and all our philosophy must 

 begin with self-consciousness. It is our self-consciousness which 

 gives the denial to pantheism, and it is our self-consciousness which 

 determines our personality and individuality. How early self- 

 consciousness begins in the infant mind we do not know. Probably 

 very early. Then from self-consciousness we proceed to the 

 discovery of many other faculties possessed by the self-conscious 

 being. But in order that these faculties may be exercised upon the 

 external world, we are endowed with a physical organisation. The 

 power, however, to receive impressions and to produce effects 

 resides in the person, the ego; it is the ego that sees not the eye, and 

 the ego is able to exert itself in proportion to the strength or 

 efficiency of the physical organisation. Our reason, imagination 

 and memory appear to be dependent upon organic conditions. 



I should like to have heard from our lecturer what the " new 

 psychology " has to say concerning the evidence for spiritual 



