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reason as in the brutes, but awakened to self-consciousness and so far 

 free in agency, then by all these Knks of causation he shall trace up 

 his relation to God, the first link in this trembling chain of spiritual 

 impulses. Into his nostrU did Deity breathe the breath of life, and 

 this soul which beats its wings eternally within his brain and bosom, 

 is the incarnation of that holy breath which brought him into being. 

 For this reason, while he fears not to admit that the material forms of 

 the world are the least tangible, so for his own soul he can afford to 

 rest on faith. 



C^' 



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