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existent innate longings of humanity for a higher and 

 better life, and the ever-increasing strength of the great 

 graces of " faith, hope, and charity," continue to dominate 

 the progress of events, it must follow, as an absolute 

 fulfilment of Holy Writ, that humanity must mount for 

 ever and ever the scale of being, until it enters upon that 

 phase which " it has not yet entered into the mind of man 

 to conceive," but which will inevitably follow, in con- 

 tinuous growth, along the lines on which it was projected. 



It, therefore, in conclusion, follows that the physical 

 and metaphysical throughout the universe of nature form 

 a whole, one and indivisible, which merges in the spiritual, 

 the whole constituting one system without beginning 

 and without end, complete, and ultimately harmonious, 

 throughout its whole extent, all friction in its working, 

 and all limitation in the completeness of its operations 

 removed, and the meeting of its every requirement being 

 achieved, the success of the whole will be made absolutely 

 and for ever manifest. 



