A Modern Symposium Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Nature, except when they are trained by man ; there is in them no sign of discourse, of reason, of morality, or of the knowledge of good and evil. The very simil... more »arity of their bodily structure to that of man tends, when these differences are noted, to add weight to the other natural evidence of the distinctness of man's soul from his body.' The immortality of the soul seems to me to be one of those truths for the belief in which, when authoritatively declared, man is prepared by the very constitution of his nature. CANON BARRY. ANY one who from the ancient position of Christianity looks on the controversy between Mr. Harrison and Prof. Huxley on " The Soul and Future Life " (to which 1 propose mainly to confine myself) will be tempted with Faulconbridge to observe, not without a touch of grim satisfaction, how, " from north to south, Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth." The fight is fierce enough to make him ask, Tantcene animis sapientibus irce? But he will see that each is far more effective in battering the lines of the enemy than in strengthening his own. Nor will he be greatly concerned if both from time to time lodge a shot or two in the battlements on which he stands, with some beating of that " drum scientific" which seems to me to be in these days always as resonant, sometimes with as much result of merely empty sound, as " the drum ecclesiastic," against which Prof. Huxley is so fond of warning us. Those whom Mr. Harrison calls " theologians," and whom Prof. Huxley less appropriately terms " priests " (for of priesthood there is here no question), may indeed hink that, if the formidable character of an opponent's position is to be measured by the scorn and fury with which it is assailed, their ground must be strong indeed; and they will possibly remembe...« less