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have fear with regard to anything. Fear shows: lack of knowledge and weakness.
Here was given a train of reasoning by which we
may know that the soul must and does exist : Matter is indestructable. If the state called knowledge can be proved to be different (which of course it can) from motion of matter, not only in d egree but in kind; as the attributes of black etc., are attributes of objects, so the attribute of knowing' and the attribute of morality or mode of behaviour must be the attributes of some real thing-call it soul, self, ego, individual, or what not. And as matter cannot be destroyed, so this soul cannot be destroyed. And it is not a compound; it is a unit always itself. It must exist for ever. That it will exist always in some state or other is the essential of a reality. It is
one of the natures of a reality to exist.
10. He has no feeling of disgust or sense of repulsion. The reason would be that the sense of disgust produces a kind of misery; and in the ideal man there must be no misery; also there is no sense of disgust when it is known that the object of disgust could only exist in those conditions: if there is disgust it is because only one or two of the aspects of the object are considered ; if all the aspects are known then there is not any disgust : and so if there is any sense of disgust it shows lack of
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