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NO. 6.
•lake Heaven Here.
observed the life-activity of these
single-celled Protista, is positively
BY PERRY MARSHALL.
convinced that they also possess a
et sunshine chase the wrath of gloom soul; that this “celi-soul” also con­
away,
Strew flowers in the pathway of sists of a sum of sensations, percep­
today;
tions, and volitions; the feeling,
It is only i„ these most hitth.y-
Why wait our journey’s end ere beautv
thinking
and
willing
of
our
human
be?
1
r
r
his inner p , Z s
Make heaven here, my friend, for you soul differ from these only in de­
and me.
gree. In like manner there is pre­ - t y establish the’ e x i X
Let self and ill be banished from the sent in the egg-cell (as potential
m ind;
s . r .
•.......“ =
The thought of hell doth famish with the energy) a hereditary cell-soul, out
kind;
of w hich man, like every other ani­ designate as consciousnes’s. As ™
" " 1 7 ™ ‘°v ‘“t .indefin» e
The bloom of love comeson the cheek to
mal,
is
developed.
stay;
tr a h /.f^ e tio n X ttili'c n n b n n e s .'hTeducatTn o f‘th ° ther ‘i ' 0“8'’
The smile of joy plays on the lips of May.
The first task of a truly scientific
litre love-clad, virtue will your corning psychology will therefore be, not, as
wait 5
And morn-robed goodness still sits by hitherto, idle speculation about an
the gate;
independent immaterial soul-exist­ ■be best proof for the immaterial eise o
s e ’’T
Let peace and joy in twilight robes
8 capacities, wise direc-
ence and its puzzling temporary existence of an im m ortal soul And I f \
adorned,
: : s ^ nr
r
throu8h
Reward the heart that highest hate hath connection with the animal body, ■bat „OWWe WilI X T t o
scorned.
in 8 exercise and this direction to
but rather the comparative investi? Hjder
Hope bears her bow above her queenly gation of the organs of the soul and
. furnish his mind with such know­
head,
ledge as may contribute to the use­
No mists may veil what loving truth the experimental examination of
An
Address
to
Students.
hath said,
fulness, the beauty, and the noble­
For
And mercy melts to mirth the caloused their psychical functions.
ness of his life.
eye,
scientific psychology js a part of
BY
JOHN
TYNDALL.
And heaven for love of earth hath left physiology, the doctrine of the
How iB this discipline to be se­
the sky.
—[Launching and Landing.
functions and the life-activities of Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-con­ cured, this knowledge imparted?
Two rival methods now solicit at­
trol,
organisms. The psychology and
alone lead life to sovereign tention the one organized and
The Biological Soul.
psychiatry of the future, like the These three power,
equipped, the labor of centuries
physiology and pathology of to­ le t not for power (power of herself
uncalled for), but to live having been expended in bringing
day, must take the form of a cellu­ nould come
BY DR. ERNST HAECKEL.
by law,
lar study, and in the first instance Acting the law we live by without fear; it to its present state of perfction;
Aud, oecause right is right, to follow the other, more or less chaotic, but
ust as the natural doctrine o investigate the soul-fuuctions of the
right
development on a monistic cells. It has but lately been shown H ere wisdom in the scorn of conse­ becoming daily less so, and giving
quence.
signs of enormous power, both as a
basis has cleared up and what important disclosures such a
—Tennyson.
source of knowledge and as a means
cellular psychology can make, even
elucidated the whole field of natural
here is an idea regarding the of discipline. 1 hese two methods
phenomena in their physical aspect, in dealing with the lowest grades
nature of man which phil­ are the classical and the scientific
it has also modified that of the of organic life, in the single-celled
osophy has sought, and is method. I wish they were not
phenomena of mind, which is in­ Protista (especially Rhizopoda and
still seeking, to raise the clearness;
rivals; it is only bigotry and short­
separably connected with the other. Infusoria.)
the idea, namely, of secular growth. sightedness that make them so; for
Our human body has been built up
These same main divisions of Man is not a thing of yesterday;
assuredly it is possible to give both
slowly and by degrees from a long soul-activity, which are to be met
nor do I imagine that the slightest of them fair play. Though hardly
series of vertebrate ancestors, and with in the single-celled organism
controversial tinge is impaired into authorized to express an opinion
Ods is also true of our soul; as a —the phenomena of irritability,
this address when I say that he is upon the subject, I nevertheless
function of our brain it has gradu­ sensation and motion — can be
not a thing of six thousand years hold the opinion that the proper
ally been developed in reciprocal shown to exist in all multicellular
ago. \\ hether he came originally study of a language is an intellec­
action and re-action with its bodily organisms as functions of the cells
from stocks or stones, from nebulous
'»rgan. \\ hat we briefly designate of which their bodies are composed. gas or solar fire, I know not; if he tual discipline of the highest kind.
If I except discussions on the com­
as the “human soul,” is only the In the lowest Metazoa, the inverte­ had any such origin the process of
parative merits of Popery and Pro-
sum of our feeling, willing and brate sponges and polyps, there are,
his transformation is as inscrutable te8tani8m, English grammar was
thinking—the sum of those physio­ just as in plants, no special soul-1
to you and me as that of the grand the most important discipline of
logical functions whose elementary organs developed, and all the cells
old legend, according to which “the my boyhood. The piercing through
°rgans are constituted by the micro­ of the body participate more or less Lord God formed man of the dust
scopic ganglion-cells of our brain. in the “soul-life.” It is only in the of the ground, and breathed into the involved and inverted sentences
of “ Paradise Lost;” the linking of
( ornparative anatomy and onto­ higher animals that the soul-life is
his nostrils the breath of life; and
geny show us how the wonderful found to be localised and connectec man became a living soul.” But the verb to its often distant nomin­
ative, of the relative to its distant
structure of this last, , the organ
organs. As » a V
conse-
—
- — with special
r
VUUV however obscure man’s origin may
0 our human soul, has in the quence of division of labor, there be, his growth is not to be denied. antecedent, of the agent to the ob­
course of millions of years been have here been developed various Here a little and there a little ject of the transitive verb, of the
preposition to the noun or pronoun
gradually built up from the brains sense-organs as organs of specific
added through the ages have slowly which
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<<Vu, mo
it governed,
the Biuuy
study oi
of
}|>gher . and lower vertebrates.
WR/, aico, ( sensibility, uiuoviro
muscles »n
as urgaiin
organs oi
of transformed him from what he was ' variations in mood and tense, the
’Oiparative psychology teaches us motion and volition, nerve-centres into what he if. The doctrine has transpositions often necessary
— to
11 w, hand in hand therewith, the or ganglia as central co-ordinating been held that the mind of the
u itself, as function of the brain, and regulating organs. In the child is like a sheet of white paper, bring out the true grammatical
been developed. The last- most highly developed families of on which by education we can structure of a sentence—all this
a med science teaches us also that the animal kingdom, these last write what characters we please. was to my young mind a discipline
primitive form of soul-activity is come more and more into the fore- I his doctrine assuredly needs qual­ of the highest value, and a source
a ready present even in the lowest ground as independent soul-organs. ification and correction. In phy- of unflagging delight. How I re­
&n|mals, the single-celled primitive In correspondence with the extra- -ics, when an external force is ap­ joiced when I found a great author
^‘ ‘fnals, Infusoria and Rhizopoda. ordinarily complicated structure of plied to a body with a view of tripping, and was fairly able to pin
Very scientific man who has long their central nervous system (the affecting its inner texture, if we him to a corner from which there
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