The Spiritual Nature of Man (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Spiritual Nature of Man It is not customary to think of human beings, from the moment of their birth to that of their death, as spirits, nor of human society as a spirit world. On the contrary, human society and the beings who constitute it are set over against spirits and the spirit world, as if here were two orders of existence that mutually excluded each other. If the question arises as to what agency, as distinct from a mechanical force, has been the cause of any given phenomenon, like the tipping of a table, ordinary language and thought divide all possible agencies into human beings and spirits. This reasoning implies that if a man tipped a table, it was not a spirit that did it, and vice versa. But if when a human agent produces an effect it is not a spirit that produces it, we are forced to classify the human being under the only other kind of reality which remains. If everything is either spirit or matter, and a human being is not spirit, he must be matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.