...recognised by those who knew it in its earthly state. Hence the poet lays down as a first principle : — Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside, And I shall know him when, we meet, (xlvi.) Hence the dead can, as he believes, " look us through and through," and "still be near us at...

...eyes cannot see it ; but we have reason to believe that it can be discerned by other spirits — " Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside, And I shall know him when we meet," Says the sorrowing poet of his departed friend ; and the whole bearing of Scripture, from which alone...

...to exist, and to retain his personal identity. " That each, who seems a separate whole, Should wove his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall, Remerging iu the general whole. " Is faith as vague as all unsweet ? Eternal form shall still divide The eternal...

...seems a (separate whole, Should move hi- rounds, and, fusing all The nkirts of self again, should foil Remerging in the general Soul, " Is faith as vague...soul from all beside, And I shall know him when we meet.1* But is it not still more significant to notice that, in the lines which immediately succeed,...

...practical and definite thought of the West, as expressed in these lines of Tennyson's " In Memoriam:"— "That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move...and, fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Rcmerging in the general Soul, " la faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide...

...in the disembodied state. Man's spirit, after death, lives in complete and abiding human shape : " Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside ; And I shall know him when we meet. " In Memoriam. " The theory of the soul is one principal part of a system of religious philosophy,...

...in the disembodied state. Man's spirit, after death, lives in complete and abiding human shape : " Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside ; And I shall know him when we meet. " In Mcmoriam. " The theory of the soul is one principal part of a system of religious philosophy,...

...of the West, as expressed in these lines of Tennyson's "In Memoriam:" — 14 ThAt each, who мете a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and, fusing all The skirts of self agnin, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, " IB faith aa vague as all unsweet : Eternal form...

...one moment on the billow of existence and then lost in the All, is explicitly repudiated by Tennyson. That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move...from all beside; - And I shall know him when we meet. Against the idea that man is but a fleeting organism, the product of material forces which made him,...

...separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remergiug in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet...from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet. Against the idea that man is but a fleeting organism, the product of material forces which made him,...