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from each other, yet have their respective truthful foundations in the nature 
and constitution of man himself. ,, • ,i. e « al viet 
The CHAIRMAN.-But he also says- in another place there the cpne 
“"S’ MARSH-Well, allowing that, which I am glad you have 
nofnted out we grant all thai need he allowed. God is infimte spirit, and 
in giving us the breath of life He has imparted to us a portion o ^Hrmsdf 
thus creatine our immortality, which can never pass away. Theieiore 
n*this respect you and I are distinct from any being wh« 
except the angel world, which we have not yet seen, -distinct from ah rihe 
material beings around us in the possession of that P ortlo “ ^ ^ ited 
Snirit the for which, of course, we become responsible. United 
5itii this is the which has also been given to the whok a mmd w°^ 
over which we have control, as being inferior to onmelves and we have aHo 
thp (Twua or body, which likewise belongs to the animal world. II y 
only look at this argument and examine the various facts which have beei 
brought out by philosophers, I think you will see that it meets their argument, 
thev cannot get over the fact that there is the “cogito, ergo sum which 
reinains in its fall vigour, -oftentimes when the material form i* «g 
and dying away. Those who are clergymen, or medical men, 
been by the bedsides of dying persons and seen how, when the bod dy 
nowers \re decayin'* the “I" which thinks, the immortal spirit within 
remains as clear and powerful as e™r-nay so,netime 3 CTen 
(Hear hear.) This fact distinguishes us from all other animals, and this “m 
so we ar^ue that it is not sufficient to look at the external world ; we ay 
that, although cordially agreeing with many of the statemmds mad by 1 
materialistic philosophers, we think they stop short of what they o 
arrive at, and that they ought to go on and account for the p 
of spirit for the psychological phenomena which we assert can on y 
which resides within us. Then we come to divine revelation and t 
is exactly what is stated to us by God in His word and it meets and 
satisfies every argument drawn from what we see around us. 
~. r W. GREAVEB-May I ask if you consider that the reason is part- 
Sir Tilson Marsh.— Whatever there is instinctive in man, is, X believe, 
part of the : whatever is rational is part of the 
Mr. GREAVES,-The purely logical faculty of man, where do you place 
that 1 
Sir TIlson Marsh. — In the irvevpa. . . % 
Mr Greaves —Then yon do not look upon the ^xn as aspiration . 
s r™ MARSH.-I look upon it as distinct from reasonwhH 
evidently is progressive, and can be cultivated to any degree. This 
a" Tan is sinful by nature, ^ tw, 
and (Toifia ? 
