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64 A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.

we were yet young, our faith was in the Bishop; he set the spirit free from matter, but we did not see our way through the shapeless universe of which he flung back the doors. We recoiled from a world all ideas; it was as deathlike as a world all matter. Your psychological sciences are the graves of faith, or the very inns of infidelity.

". . . All the essays on Psychology we ever heard of, never introduced us to one spirit. They were a rotting chrysalis without the butterfly." (pp. 300, 30 1.)

" But Swedenborg boldly asserts that in every particular the spirit is a man after death as before; a shape cognizable, with emotions and passions, with mental powers and affections. . . . He is the only writer who asserts clearly, so far as we have seen, the nexus between body and soul, distinctly separating and yet conjoining them." (pp. 302, 303.)

And Mr. Hood closes his chapter on Homology and Psychology with these words:—

" The reader, we trust, will now see the character of Swedenborg's investigations into the nature of man; and it will be seen while his conceptions are definite and distinct, they conduct neither to the vagaries of Hegel or Schelling, nor the cold but glittering Pantheism of Fichte, nor the lofty but dizzy

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