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TESTIMONY OF REV. EDWIN P. HOOD. 63

tinguished and apart from his body, as does his body from the house in which for a time it has its abode. It is a comforting idea that our mind is the master and the tenant of the deceased and dying house of mourning and of clay." (p. 290.)

" Psychology — the doctrine of the spirit, is well named; but often it has happened that the name has been the best part of the study. No range of thought has been more dreary or barren than this; none has been more frequently converted into a mere sciomachy or logomachy; spirit has had but little to do with the discussion. The professed Psychologists all weary us. How can it be otherwise than so? They compel us to follow over immense deserts of arid and sandy scientifics — the mirage haunting us, and beckoning in the distance a promise of satisfaction. * Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy! ' The mirage fades like a phantom; our spirit finds no rest for the sole of its foot; ' tis a weary chase — through cloud and star-land with Berkeley, through the grim dreary mountain defiles with Hume, through the dry hard streets of every-day life with Reid, through the rainbowed chaos of Fichte and his contemporaries; and rest assuredly meets us nowhere.

" Truly Psychology, so called, has not introduced us to the spirits; but it has raised a score of Frankenstein monsters, horrible abortions, who crush us. When

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