20 PROPERTIES AND POWERS. 



finite minds to do so, endeavour to conceive the powers 

 or forces gravitation, molecular attraction, electricity, 

 heat, light, and the principle which determines all 

 chemical phenomena as manifestations of agencies 

 which hold a place between the most subtile form of 

 matter and the hidden principles of vitality, which is still 

 vastly inferior to the spiritual state, which reveals itself 

 dimly in psychological phenomena, and arrives at its 

 sublimity in the God of the universe. 



