CHAPTER THE FIRST.
MAN THE RESULT OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE OF THE BODY, THE SOUL, AND THE LIFE. WHAT CONSTITUTES DEATH.
BARTHEZ, Lordat, and the Medical School of Montpellier have created the doctrine of the human aggregate, which, in our opinion, affords the only explanation of the true nature of man. This doctrine of which we shall avail ourselves, as a guide in the earlier portions of this work, may be defined as follows:—
There exists in man three elements:—
1. The body, or the material substance.
2. The Life, or as Barthez calls it, the Vital Force.
3. The Soul, or as Lordat calls it, the Intimate Sense.