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some nations, as France, have largely cast off God and reli- 
gion,— how is it, I ask that such nations yet retain a fair 
proportion of female worshippers ? This fact is to he explained 
L the difference I have been insisting upon. Women, from 
the very constitution of their nature, are more pious more 
religious, than men ; they are less tempted to fall away through 
pneumatical pride, and more disposed to acts of devotion, 
which have their mainspring m the psychical part of natuie. 
22 I forbear to enter here upon the relation of Psyche to 
the blood, though it is written: “Flesh with the life or soul 
thereof which is the blood thereof, ye shall not eat. (Gen. 
ix. 4 50 It appears to have pleased God to give to the soul 
a very close and a very peculiar relation to the blood ; indeed 
this thought is by no means confined to sacred Scripture. 
Purpuream vomit ille animam, et cum sanguine mista 
Vina refert moriens. 
23 Passing over the question of the relation of Psyche to 
the blood, I would point out, that what I have said in regard 
to the difference between Pneuma and Psyche is very similar 
to that which Professor Stokes, in his address before e 
British Association, guided by considerations wholly in im- 
pendent of the Bible, hinted at. He said : While admit- 
ting that the organic substance of which plant or animai 
is composed was built up by the laws of chemical affinity he 
still thought that these laws were far from giving any adequate 
account of life. (Psyche?) Behind and above these laws 
working mysteriously through them, lies pother force ’ ^ 
mysteries ai-e still impenetrable ; and beyond the phenomena of 
life (Psyche ?) itself, lie those of mind (Pneuma ?) transcending 
the former as much as those of life transcend chemistry, &c. 
24. To speak generally, then, I would say, that the rdahon 
which spirit, soul, and body in man bear to each ^her ' 
relation that is incidental to the present condition of things. 
As the hand presents the food for the mouth, and the mouth 
gives sustenance to the body^so the body brings the <spm 
into immediate contact with this terrene state of things, that 
it may exercise itself upon the world’s wonders, -while the 
soul’s^softening energies were intended to conseciate al - 
Hings of iustice, holiness, and love. The spirit’s powers and 
capacities have their sphere in the wide fields °f ^actem 
and generalization, the soul’s m the enjoyments which l.te 
and religion give, and the body’s in such things as pensh in 
the using Take away the present condition of things, and 
the relation which spirit, soul, and body bear to each other 
would cease. Hence there is nothing of a foolish phnosopii. 
