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thus fulfills the manifest end of its existence, and fulfills a 

 clear mandate incorporated in the being of man, to seek for 

 knowledge. The correlations between the world and psychical 

 natures impress us in the commonest observations. How 

 true are the instincts of men and animals to something which 

 is real. The tadpole absorbs its gills and pushes out upon the 

 shore taking advantage of a fall of rain and ventures trust- 

 fully on the land, believing that a suitable home will be 

 found. Nor is the trust betrayed. The mother fowl calls her 

 new-born chicks, and they already know her voice. The 

 hungry babe cries out in the night, and Nature has responded 

 beforehand to the call. The intellectual instincts find the 

 realities of nature equally responsive. What intuition tells us 

 may be trusted. It is a voice implanted in my nature; it 

 speaks for the author of my being ; it is the voice of God. 



One kind of intelligence takes hold of the knowable. In 

 the mind which conceived the plan and frame of the universe 

 was an apprehension of the mathematical relations of the 

 magnitudes involved. The plan of the solar system in its 

 co-existent parts, and in its progressive creation was a thought 

 in the mind of the Originator. Man, so far as he grasps it, 

 rethinks the thoughts of the Supreme Thinker. To seek 

 knowledge is to aspire to reproduce the thoughts of the divine 

 mind. So far as man thinks the divine thoughts, he possesses 

 a faculty akin to the divine intelligence ; so far-he partakes of 

 the divine nature ; so far he comes into a sympathetic union 

 with the Being whose existence is before all and beyond all. 

 I believe, too, that all intelligences whether dwellers in an 

 angelic realm or on other planets, whether inhabitants of our 

 system or other systems, understand the truths of nature as 

 we understand them. There is but one geometry ; there is 

 but one body of transcendental philosophy. In these we find 

 the common thoughts and the common language of universal 

 intelligence. In the unity of intelligence we find a bond of 

 brotherhood and sympathy between the dwellers in distant 

 worlds and between all and the Supreme Intelligence. 



The unity of man's corporeal organism with the funda- 



