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A proper survey of Pantonomic science cannot fail to establish 

 a clear view of the relation which exists between the physical and 

 mental worlds, and present the harmony of their laws in such 

 light as to render the subject highly interesting and instructive. 



We will now ascend still higher, and show that the mind has 

 higher relationship, and may be brought into harmony with the 

 divine world, where there is a higher sense developed. In the 

 true synthetic order and progress of knowledge, we proceed up- 

 ward from the physical sense to the mental, and from the mental 

 to the divine sense, which is inspiration. 



By the natural eye, we perceive but few objects immediately 

 around us, but in imitation of the mechanism of this organ, the 

 mind prepares and arranges instruments of telescopic power, by 

 which distant and unseen worlds are brought to view ; the light of 

 innumerable orbs and systems in the far regions of space is 

 brought down to us and linked with our own material being by 

 kindred ties of relationship. And thus it is in the mental world j 

 psychological science presents a scene of spiritual harmony and 

 truth ; and the whole material world, when its laws are revealed, 

 becomes one great system of telescopic media to the mental vis. 

 ion, by which the light, the truth, and the harmony of the heav- 

 enly and divine world shed down their holier influence on the 

 soul of man, and raise him up to that elevation where mental and 

 divine knowledge where wisdom and piety are united. 



Let us now descend again to the relation between mind and 

 nature. 



Every degree of corporeal sensation, has its counterpart in the 

 affective, (or, as they are called in the synopsis.) sensitive powers 

 of the mind. To light and darkness, belong joy and sorrow ; to 

 symmetry and deformity, belong love and hatred ; to harmonious 

 and discordant sounds, belong courage and fear ; and thus every 

 emotion of the mind is made up of these affections, either singly 

 or variously combined. 



The charms of morning skies and evening shades, with all their 

 intervening changes ; the rejuvenescence of spring, and the som- 

 bre hues of fading autumn, are but the elements of the poetry of 



