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The Chairman. — I do not think that much good is to he gained by 
t so; but I thihk it is very import 
to show the logical consequences of the principles here laid down. What 
Mr. English in effect says, is that the Pneuma is no fomdabon ^ ^ 
you can erect what is holy, just, and good l a^ec wrth Mr En l^h 
thinking that the Pneuma does represent the higher faculties of the mmd 
andthe” Psyche the lower faculties ; but I do not agree with him in thinking 
that the Pneuma is incapable of bearing the weight ot the highest as P ^ tl0 
of the human soul X will not enter into any discussion about Aristotle and 
Plito for we have more important matter before us than they ever treated ; 
bu^ l want to caU attention to a misquotation from Scnpture which Mr 
r i, u, madp He gives a quotation to show that the i^sycne, 
distinct from the Pneuma, is the seat of the affections, but he S 1 ™ 8 
partiaUy. The quotation, in the paper, is : “Thou shalt love *he W thy 
-G, ,11 thv S0U 1 •» hut in the Bible the passage runs thus .— Bear, 
O Israel, the lord om God is one God and ^ou shalt kve nie Lord thy 
God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might 
“with aU thy vovq” in fact; which Mr. English translates as though 
were ir« 5 ,xa /leaving out the very phrase which bears upon the point. Then 
he quotes the words of the Canticle of the Virgin Mary My soul do h 
magnify the Lord,” but he omits the foUowing words, and my spirit hath 
3 d hi God my Saviour.” The word is really “ exults,” and the conclu- 
sion is that in the Pneuma there are moral and spiritual prmciples that can 
rise to the height of exultation. And now I must defend the ladies tor a 
moment Mr. English has treated them so very badly that I feei compeLed 
“ord in their vindication. He has represented the female as having a 
predominance of the Psyche, which is used in 
the Epistle of St. James, it is said that a certain thing is 
p ychkal), and devilish.” I own that Mr. English’s argument appears to 
me to be a very singular one. In one part of his paper you will find it 
Tted that inasmuch as woman was made of Adam’s rib, and inasmuch 
as the Psyche resides there, therefore women have got a 'yS er s , 
of the Psyche than they have of the Pneuma, which belonged to Adam 
It seems to me that we might as well argue that inasmuch as mendo 
now come into existence by the direct breathing of f^^refore we 
breathed, into Adam, but not into Eve, nor mto any of us 
have lost some share of the Pneuma too. Then Mr. English gives a passage 
in Latin from Scotus-I did not know that Scotus has so bad an opinion 
women. I will translate it . 
“ The human nature of man is of intellect, which is called l in i Greek vote; 
of woman, sensation, of the feminine gender, al^e, which means 
sation.” 
Aeain Mr. English complains of the infidelity of the French, arising from 
the predominance of the Pneuma, the very highest part of man, and says 
