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cognizes and amplifies this law, showing its connection with 

 the welfare of the soul. This law of duty recognizes the relation 

 of sin and punishment, and of virtue and happiness, and points 

 out three states. The first, a state of blessedness, the heavenly 

 state ; the second, a state of probation, or earthly state ; the third, 

 a state of punishment, or the world of woe, a state of death to the 

 soul. This last mentioned state is the lowest extreme, and con- 

 sequently, the opposite of the heavenly, to which the true pro- 

 gress of the mind, in its upward ascent, would lead : it being in 

 this case guided by the laws of science, while a downward course 

 towards the other extreme would as surely result from an at- 

 tempt to evade or disregard these laws. The worm, obedient to 

 the laws of his nature, spends a part of his life in preparing a cov- 

 ering of a material which is a non-conductor of electric force. 

 In this tomb he envelopes himself, and thus retains the feeble 

 galvanic force, which sustains a kind of vitality while he passes 

 through the shades of death, and ensures himself a resurrection 

 into a higher world of life and light and happiness. He is no 

 longer confined to the dust on which he was doomed to crawl in 

 his less perfect state of being, but soars aloft in the pure light of 

 day, and wings his way over flowery meads and widening 

 scenes of joy. 



Now, had he disregarded the laws of his nature, and neglected 

 to prepare himself for the change of death, he must have died as 

 he had lived, unprepared, and fallen to the lowest extreme of his 

 nature, that of inanimate dust. So it is with man if he diso- 

 beys the laws of moral science and neglects to prepare that guard 

 for his soul which virtue and piety alone can secure, and which 

 shall save his soul alive as he passes through the ordeal of death, 

 and becomes prepared for a glorious resurrection. If he 

 neglects this preparation, then he must, whenever death over- 

 takes him, fall to the lowest extreme of the mental state, and in- 

 sure an entire separation from the upper world. The anirn/J 

 dies a physical death, the man a spiritual death, this is a state 

 of woe, it is called everlasting death. The Philosopher should 

 stop here, and leave the description with divine revelation. All 

 we know from reason is, that it is a state consequent on sinful- 



