THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD

Man, however, towers above the animal through the possession of something quite distinct, and thoughtful people have at all times been aware wherein this superiority consists. It is indicated in what Jean Paul Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), a famous German Romantic writer known for his humorous and soulful novels. says of himself in his autobiography. He relates that he could quite well remember the day when he stood as a child in the courtyard of his parents’ house, and the thought suddenly flashed across his mind that he was an ego, a being, capable of inwardly saying “I” to itself; and he tells us that this made a profound impression upon him.

All the so-called external science of the soul Referring to psychology that only looks at outward behavior or physical brain functions. overlooks the most important point which is here involved. I will ask you, therefore, to follow me for a few moments in making a survey of what is a very subtle argument, yet one which will show you how the matter stands. In the whole of human speech there is one small word which differs entirely original: "in toto" from all the rest. Each one of you can name the things around you; each one can call a table a table, and a chair a chair. But there is one word, one name, which you cannot apply to anything save to that which owns it, and this is the little word “I.” None can address another as “I.” This “I” has to sound forth from the innermost soul itself; it is the name which