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: CHAPTER IV RELIGION AND SCIENCE: AGREEMENT AT LAST! THE SUPER-PHYSICAL IN MAN " And they said one to the other,' Brothers, of a truth we may no longer disagree because this stranger with Wisdom's tongue doth speak !' " It is now known that everything in Nature obeys certain universal laws which, although silent and unseen, are, nevertheless, irresistible. Matter is moved forward by some stupendous energy, and is obedient to its governance. Man, in his physical body, being matter, is in turn dominated and governed by this same dynamic force. The peculiar grey particles of the brain being again but matter, are likewise under the dominating influence of this supreme power. Hence it follows that man's material body, being matter, is of itself incapable of life or motion, of thought or word or deed, unless it be vitalised and energised by some superior power. This potent influence either stands outside our physical bodies and steps in for co-operative action as occasion demands, or enters in at birth and takes up its abode in its fleshly habitation during the latter's earthly existence. That the alternative position is the correct one is beyond doubt. It is, then, with this superior inward power, this vivifying, invigorating, dominating influence, this Spiritual Body, with which we now have to deal. But let us not be hasty in our conclusions or faulty in our judgment, for of this we may be sure that, of allquestions which concern our physical lives, this is the one which should claim our chief regard, because of its supreme and stupendous importance. It is, moreover, a question in which the entire human race, irrespective of creed, colour, or country, is equally interested; it is the one thing in life which is common property and in which every human be...