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general force in bringing forth those mental images in their 

 particularization it brings them forth only in the general ab 

 stract laws of intellectuality, each of them, therefore, in its 

 particular place in the thread of creation and in its time of 

 development becomes also the abstraction itself gradually, that 

 a man by his physical mechanism, as it is a concrete form, it is 

 in it the intellectuality only potentially, but a man as he is in 

 the highest degree of development in the&quot; general abstraction, 

 then by his abstraction, in his consciousness, is the intellectuality 

 or Divinity itself. The inductive method, therefore, being an 

 observation on the physical mechanism of the particularized 

 objects alone, reflects upon the brain of man to be in its partic 

 ularized state, in its concrete form, to possess the knowledge of 

 things only of thej&amp;gt;otentiality alone. 



Let us consider carefully a one adopted hypothesis in the 

 natural science of to-day, which is generally admitted by our 

 scientists. Since the physical forces or agents are disclosed to 

 them only by their effects, by inductive results, and their 

 intimate nature is therefore completely unknown to them, they 

 have admitted therefore an imponderable matter in the universe, 

 that &quot;there is a subtile, imponderable, and eminently elastic 

 fluid, called the ether, distributed through the entire universe, it 

 pervades the mass of all bodies, the denest and most opaque, 

 as well as the lightest or the most transparent.&quot; By this hypo 

 thetical &quot; ether &quot; they believe to explain many phenomena in 

 physics, in astronomy and chemistry while such an hypothetical 

 ether contains a contradiction in itself. Such an hypothetical 

 ether must be divisible, for, were it indivisible, that the ether 

 were an one absolutely homogenous mass that filled the whole 

 universe withont end, that it is not composed of parts and not 

 divisible in parts, then, no compound object, not even a single 

 atom could exist in the universe. Fishes swimming in the water 

 divide the element and remove it from the place they occupy 

 at every point in the line of their motion. The space occupied 

 by the fish cannot be occupied by the water at the same time. 

 Now, if ether were an indivisible substance, which must have 

 at the same time the impenetrability as a substance, no material 



