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62 A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.

" There is a spirit as well as a letter in the Word of Truth. Have we not occasion to fear that our attention has in this age been wholly absorbed in the letter, until we have, in fact, quite forgotten, in many instances, the spirit?" (p. 384.)

HOMOL OGY AND PS YCHOL OGY.

Hear Mr. Hood's confession also touching the popular view of the nature of man, of the resurrection, of the value of what is called psychological science, and the light that Swedenborg has thrown upon these subjects.

" No other writer has so distinctly given the negative to the great delusion that the body is the man. The body is man's house; all its powers and faculties are but the organs of the soul; not modes of the soul's operation, but avenues through which it acts, and by which alone it can be apprehended or at all known. This is one of the greatest delusions man has to encounter and conquer; the connection of man with his body has to be more clearly known. . . . He allows his senses to impose upon him, and by and by abandons altogether the thought which ought perpetually to be his consolation and his life; namely, that his personality stands as far and as highly ^is-

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