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THE NATURE OF MAN. 199 death. The soul, coming from the spiritual world along with the several faculties and senses, enters the body formed in the womb of the mother, has its sublunary career, and at death returns to the spiritual world. Zoroastrianism, or Parsee faith, teaches that God has provided the soul with every kind of aid to perform successfully the work given it to do. Among the chief aids are knowledge, wisdom, sense, thought, action, free will, religious conscience, practical conscience, a guiding spirit or good genius, and, above all, the Revealed Religion. In the resurrection of the dead and renovation of the 'world, when the whole creation is to start afresh, all souls will be furnished with new bodies for a future life of ineffable bliss. The third-day paper of Pung Kwang Yu, on "Confucian- ism," presented the great sage of China as saying that man is the product of heaven and earth, the heart of heaven and earth ; that humanity is the natural faculty and the character- istic of man ; that the innate qualities of the soul are human- ity, rectitude, propriety, understanding, and truthfulness, and that love is the controlling emotion of man. There are also essential imperfections in the constitution of man, due to the fact that the organizations which different individuals have received from the earth are very diverse in character. In a third day paper on "Man from a Catholic Point of View," Rev. Dr. Wm. Byrne stated as the Catholic idea that man is a being instinctively supernatural in his capacities and powers, that intellect and will and the immortality of the soul are the three natural endowments which constitute the image of God in man, and that these elements of his nature deter- mine his destiny, union with God. Dr. Moxom set forth the argument for man's immortality.