48 Natural Salvation. 



citizen as connected with his neighbors and through them 

 with every other citizen, by cables, bands, or cords of sen- 

 tient living matter continuous with his own living sub- 

 stance. We must picture, too, the more prominent class 

 of citizens as having thrust forth immensely long tentacles, 

 forming nets of this same sentient matter, extending long 

 distances from their bodies, and lying in close contact with 

 similar tentacles belonging to hundreds of their fellows, 

 in order that they may feel and literally sense all that they 

 do or think. 



If this condition of things existed throughout the 

 nation, we should undoubtedly find the individual citizens 

 living as one enormous National Person. In place of 

 eighty millions of individual men and women, we should 

 see them unified in a self-conscious national life. Such a 

 nation would act and conduct itself among other nations 

 as a Personal Being. 



Upon a lower plane of inorganic relationship of particle 

 to particle and ion to ion, in the atomic sense, it is possible 

 that such a unified personality possesses the universe, an- 

 swering to the indefinite conception of deity. Gravitation 

 has been held to be the lowly organized personality of 

 cosmos, expressing itself in natural phenomena. Von 

 Hartmann, in his "Philosophy of the Unconscious," 

 appears to have grasped some such conception, which, 

 however, he immediately perverted to the exigencies of an 

 immoral philosophy. 



