Paul

no doubt, like the rest of his race, believed in po e ion by spirits; though he does not seem to mean this in speaking of conscience. He knew nothing of “Kant’s Law of Reason, or Conscious — Autonomy... our only proof of liberty.” He taught that a Divine — Spirit did exist “in all and through all.” Philosophers called conscience a “mind function,” due to experience, and as coercive as pa ion. Emotions of Love and Faith are acts of the mind, dependent — on our knowledge or experience, and on increasing enlightenment. But the idea of the “still small voice” is not so. It is the genuine survival of belief in po e ion by some other individual spirit—‘a spark of divinity,” a demon—belonging to that condition of civilisation during which devils were believed to enter Gadarene swine. Sir J. M. Campbell (The Spirit Basis of Belief) says: “The experience or voice of conscience has been accepted as one of the strongest grounds for believing in more than one indwelling spirit” (Indian Antigq., Nov. 1897): the Christian poet Herrick herein agrees with the Emperor Akbar (1600 a.c.) that “conscience is a god in man”: that “deep in our soul lives the true agent—God... who stirs us to the search of truth.” The Arab can hear the Jinn speak, The Hindu sees spirits everywhere, not only in temples but (as among Christians) in sacred bread or meat. Epidemics are due to spirits pa ing from one body to another. The Hebrews said that Yahveh took the spirit of Moses and put it on the seventy elders (Num. xi, 17). So too a Pope, or a bishop, transmits the Holy Spirit to the priest he consecrates, as Christ also breathed it into his apostles (see Spirits). Conscience is the sense of obedience to our highest ideal. Moses and Hammurabi said, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But in the time of Christ the ideal had become higher, and conscience — demanded the reverse, teaching man to forgive his brother ‘seventy — times seven.” As with nations so with individuals, The conscience — | 1 of our youth is not the conscience of mature age, because the experience is wider; that is if memory remains unimpaired. We must be consistent in advancing, though not with the past: for that which does hot grow dies; and stagnant water poisons all around it. 510