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THE EIGHT WAY IN PSYCHOLOGY. 



Reply of the Author. 



I meant no offence to science, and do not understand how my 

 sentence can have been so misinterpreted. Science is not meta- 

 physical ; and glories in its abstinence from metaphysics. 



To question (a) I answer that doubting is a kind of thinking ; so 

 is inquiry, etc. I cannot answer (b) in a sentence, the questions 

 require at least a whole paper to themselves. In Knowledge, Belief 

 and Certitude^ published by Sonnenschein in 1900, the results of 

 years of thought and research are contained; and there, too, will 

 be found a full statement of my view of science. 



Limits of space forbid my discussing other criticisms. I cannot, 

 however, refrain from expressing my dissent from Professor 

 Orchard's arguments against the union of soul and body. The 

 soul also changes, and far more than the body. In some cases, it is 

 "born again," it becomes "a new creature." Change is not 

 incompatible with identity. That the dissolution of the body 

 involves the annihilation of the soul is an argument which rests 

 upon the assumption that the visible and tangible body is real ; 

 and the soul only a dependent phenomenon. We do not know the 

 ultimate nature of matter, nor the ultimate nature of spirit. 

 An argument which is based on ignorance is worthless. The soul 

 is the life of the body ; it is more than that, but it is that. If the 

 body is disintegrated why should not the life continue, and acquire 

 a new body 1 St. Paul says "it is sown a natural (psychical) body ; 

 it is raised a spiritual body." Death is an event of which we have 

 no experience. When we have passed through it, and look back 

 upon it, we shall know something about it. I do not pretend that 

 our present conjectures as to what is possible are proofs of 

 resurrection and immortality; I am only contending that the 

 alleged argument from the dissolution of the body is not valid. 



I thank my critics for their kind compliments, and for their 

 criticisms, which shall receive careful consideration. 



