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32 whether you call it, after the old theology, and in defiance of common-sense, a vital spark, waiting nowhere to get its manhood out of the grave in a final resurrection of dead bodies, it comes to the same thing; when the body dies it disintegrates and personal identity and function are forever lost.

3. It is difficult to see why in such an alternative we should not come to the only theory that remains, the only one that answers the demands of reason, the observations of life, and the alleged facts of Revelation, namely: that the soul is an organized spiritual body living in and by virtue of a world of spiritual substances, forces and forms, both interior to the physical body and its world of sense. Once admit this doctrine into the court of reason and there is something to learn; and the Lord, through His properly prepared and commissioned servant, can begin to teach us on the basis of things "heard and seen."