tural faculties is assumed, and amid
all the difference of function and variety of operation it is undeniable
that the New Testament writers generally, and particularly St. Paul,
presuppose a unity of consciousness--a single ego, or Soul. It is
unnecessary to discuss the question, much debated by Biblical
psychologists, as to whether the apostle recognises a threefold or a
twofold division of man.[14] Our view is that he recognised only a
twofold division, body and soul, which, however, he always regarded as
constituting a unity, the body itself being psychical or interpenetrated
with spirit, and the spirit always acting upon and working through the
physical powers.

Man is a unique phenomenon in the world. Even on his physical side he is
not a piece of dead matter, but is instinct through and through with
spirit. And on his psychical side he is not an unsubstantial wraith, but
a being inconceivable apart from outward embodiment. Perhaps the most
general term which we may adopt is _psyche_ or Soul--the living self or
vital and animating principle which is at once the seat of all bodily
sensation and the source of the higher cognitive faculties.

2. The fact of ethical interest from which we must proceed is that man,
in virtue of his spiritual nature, is _akin to God_, and participates in
the three great elements of the divine Personality--thought, love and
will.[15] Personality has been called 'the culminating fact of the {62}
universe.' And it is the task of man to realise his true personality--to
fulfil the law of his highest self. In this work he has to harmonise and
bring to the unity of his personal life, by means of one dominating
force, the various elements of his nature--his sensuous, emotional, and
rational powers. By the constitution of his being he belongs to a larger
world, and when he is true to himself he is ever reaching out towards it.
From the very beginning of life, and even in the lowest phases of his
nature he has within him the potency of the divine. He carries the
infinite in his soul, and by reason of his very existence shares the life
of God. The value of his soul in this sense is repeatedly emphasised in
scripture. In our Lord's teaching it is perhaps the most distinctive
note. The soul, or self-conscious spiritual ego, is spoken of as capable
of being 'acquired' or 'lost.'[16] It is acquired or possessed when a
man seeks to regain the image in which he was created. It is lost whe