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magnificence" of the leaves. Does it lessen my amaze- 
ment to know that every cluster, and every leaf their form 
and texture lie, like the music in the rod, in the molecular 
structure of these apparently insignificant stems? Not so. 
Mr. Martineau weeps for " the beauty of the flower fad- 
ing into a necessity." I care not whether it comes to me 
through necessity or through freedom, my delight in it is 
all the same. I see what he sees with a wonder superadded. 
To me, as to him, not even Solomon in all his glory was 
arrayed like one of these. 
I have spoken above as if the assumption of a soul would 
save Mr. Martineau from the inconsistency of crediting 
pure matter with the astonishing building power displayed 
in crystals and trees. This, however, would not be the 
necessary result; for it would remain to be proved that the 
soul assumed is not itself matter. When a boy I learned 
from Dr. Watts that the souls of conscious brutes are mere 
matter. And the man who would claim for matter the 
human soul itself, would find himself in very orthodox 
company. " All that is created," says Fauste, a famous 
French bishop of the fifth century, " is matter. The soul 
occupies a place; it is enclosed in a body; it quits the body 
at death, and returns to it at the resurrection, as in the 
case of Lazarus; the distinction between hell and heaven, 
between eternal pleasures and eternal pains, proves that, 
even after death, souls occupy a place and are corporeal. 
G-od only is incorporeal." Tertullian, moreover, was quite 
a physicist in the definiteness of his conceptions regarding 
the soul. "The materiality of the soul," he says, " is 
evident from the evangelists. A human soul is there ex- 
pressly pictured as suffering in hell; it is placed in the 
middle of a flame, its tongue feels a cruel agony, and it 
implores a drop of water at the hands of a happier soul. 
Wanting materiality," adds Tertullian, " all this would be 
without meaning"*' 
* The foregoing extracts, which M. Alglave recently brought to 
light for the benefit of the bishop of Orleans, are taken from the 
sixth lecture of the " Cours d'Histoire Moderne" of that most 
orthodox of statesmen, M. Guizot. " I could multiply," continues 
M. Guizot, " these citations to infinity, and they prove that in the 
first centuries of our era the materiality of the soul was an opinion 
not only permitted, but dominant." Dr. Moriarty, and the synod 
which he recently addressed, obviously forget their own antecedents. 
