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conception of the First Cause, of knowledge, purpose and 

 will altogether, as in the Ionian Philosophy which re 

 appears amongst us to-day the puerile view. This puerile 

 view results from a want of appreciation of human reason. 

 Maturity reconciles the apparently diverging truths contained 

 in each assertion and represents the material universe as 

 always and everywhere sustained and directed by an infinite 

 Cause, for which to us the word MIND is the least inadequate 

 and misleading of symbols. 



