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THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE. 



nition, the world without us must yield to the undoubte 

 existence of the spirit within. Our own hopes and wishe 

 and determinations are the most undoubted phenomena 

 within the sphere of consciousness. If men do act, feel, 

 and live as if they were not merely the brief products of 

 casual conjunction of atoms, but the instruments of a far- 

 reaching purpose, are we to record all other phenomena anc 

 pass over these &quot;? We investigate the instincts of the anl 

 and the bee and the beaver, and discover that they are lee 

 by an inscrutable agency to work towards a distant 

 pose. Let us be faithful to our scientific method, anc 

 investigate also those instincts of the human mind, bj 

 which man is led to work as if the approval of a Highei 

 Being were the aim of life. 



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