I Forbid the Banns! — page 73: what you’re looking at

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ON THE HUMAN SOUL. 63 “Spiritual aspiration and spiritual sympathy,” said the girl, “imply the existence and presence of a soul—of two souls.” “Tam willing to admit one, for the sake of argument,” said Charlton. ‘‘ But you are a man of science, and therefore you think that all knowledge of this sort is negative ?”’ ‘““T am aman of science, and therefore I say that such knowledge is positive,” said Charlton. “What, you mean to tell me that there are any people ‘in England at present who believe that a scrap of soul remains among human beings ?”’ “There are thousands who are assured of it, Miss Lan- caster. There are even some here and there who believe in the human soul, not merely as a subject eminently adapted to co-operative divisibility—one doing duty fora number of persons—but actually as an individual pos- session.” ‘ Then will you tell me if it is England or Australia that is behind in science ?”’ cried the girl. ‘‘T cannot say,’ said Charlton ; ‘I know that the pre- vailing feeling in England just now is not that the regener- ation of mankind has the best chance of being effected through the agency of sulphate of copper and zinc filings. Is there any science in Australia ?”’ “There is nothing but science, Mr. Charlton,” said Bertha. ‘ There is nothing but science to be met with in any direction. I have come to hate the idea of a man with a mind. Does a man’s sympathy come from his mind? They have told me long ago that sympathy is only a form of reasoning.” | | “And no doubt that gratitude is the same—that it springs only when one expects that one will have further cause for its exercise.” ‘The laboratory is the modern temple,” said the girl. CONNICLOOOKS (E(0)