WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



To admit that man's mind is not so, opens 

 the way to the most far-reaching conclu- 

 sions about the relations of mind to all 

 existence. We have already shown how 

 the person, Man, just because he is so, 

 fills this world with his wonderful crea- 

 tions, none of which would exist but for 

 his previously devising them. What 

 would man create if, in place of his brief 

 existence here, to him belonged that time 

 which is unmeasured by the flight of years? 

 But whose Image is now before us ? 



Equally as to his own being, it is plain 

 that if he is to exist on this earth at all, 

 he should have a physical body to corre- 

 spond. It is difficult to imagine how it 

 could be otherwise. If he must eat, he 



'should have a stomach like other eaters, 

 and likewise, all his bodily organs should 

 be in keeping with those of the earthly 

 animals of his class. And so we find it, 

 particularly in the case of that bodily 

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