NEED FOR RELIGION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 31, 7 February 1933, Page 6

NEED FOR RELIGION.

'•Rata" asks, "What is man's soul? What is it to be saved from? And why?" That anyone so apparently well qualified to write on the subject under discussion should P ro " pound such rudimentary queries makes ® wonder how deeply he has considered it. me, as a materialist and a student of psyCß" logy, the answers are so obvious. The 80U is one's ethical ego, one's personality as. • moral being; and if I may venture a scienti definition of the soul, it is the mathematics centre of the motion, of the molecules the sentient brain. That is exists as an enti. J apart from the living brain is to me concei able, but unlikely. What it is to be from brings in the aspect of religion I su was "the most essential, and that is con ; mity to a moral codc. "Rata's" experience.! life must be different to others, imbued w' moral aspirations, who have had to pull t"® selves lip with a round turn and sav ®J~ ti , souls, from giving lvav to the sensuous B*. (ication of the moment, thereby pr« erv ' = that ineffable feeling of personal satisfac i which conies from self-approbation. rUtn » said that, "Rata" must himself answer Way* No other can. Under the great god Chan we are each the arbiters of our own destjV ALEXANDER FRASEK-