is. Mind, in these lower animals, is divisible, whether it be or 
be not identical with their vital principle : 
“ On Earth there is nothing great but Man, 
In Man there is nothing great but Mind.” 
18 The Spirit of Man is a special creation, capable of union 
either with God or the Devil. The Anthropologists, of these 
our days, found societies in London, Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, 
for the maintenance and propagation only of their own exclu- 
sive Physical History of The Human Species. It is held to be 
no part of True Anthropology to admit the existence ot a 
Religious and Moral Nature in the souls of Mankind at large, 
the world over, upon any hind of testimony, however irrefrag- 
able, whether it be called Spiritual, Mental, or Physical, in 
their science of Man, Keligion, itself, is mere systematic 
idolatry and sordid priestcraft. Mythology, and Tradition, 
Hindu or Christian, the Rig- Veda Sanhita is as truly spiritual 
or heavenly as the Hebrew Scriptures, and O-Kee-Pa, as an 
“ inspired ” ceremony of the Mandans, equal m value to either 
of the sacraments of the Church of England. Idolatrous worship 
in India may be taught and illustrated m Essays, 1 apers, ana 
Lectures of singular “ beauty ” and profound importance, but 
the fairest Advocates of demonstrative Religiosity, true in 
sentiment and fact, in principle or practice, m proving t e 
spiritual realities of the Universal Heart and Consciousness 
in every variety of the Human Race, are held only to assume 
the real in Man, historically and pre-historically. -These 
necessary truths, as I conceive them to be, are held not to 
partake of the Absolute ; the inscription of Aristotle, ra ptra 
rd Avvik d, is altogether untrue. Surely there is some distinc- 
tion to be drawn between Israel purified and Israel disgraced , 
equally certain is it, in my judgment, that there exists as wid 
a gulf between true and false Religion as there ^ ketwee 
light and darkness, or good and evil. The Science of Ma , 
be worthy of its high and noble calling, must include Human 
Nature, as we find it, in every geographical distribution of the 
genus Homo; whether found in the drawing-room ot an 
Emperor’s palace or in the natural caverns of Erumquei, 
during the Rein-deer period; the wild pithecoid races ot 
North-Western Europe, spoken of by Latin writers, or the 
members of the Victoria Institute. Absolute inequality ot 
Neshamah is not demonstrable by Physicai characteristics. 
“ To do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humb » ’ 
thy God,” is no part of the modern Science of Man ; but t 
utter prostitution of our Spiritual Nature, originating in, 
