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is the escape from materialism, that threat of the ignorant 

 and unbelieving. Higher conceptions of beauty and greatness 

 are now being entertained by the multitudes, and we begin 

 to feel that the next great step is being taken when we 

 shall become, instead of poor trembling denizens of a perish- 

 able world, proud and conscious citizens of an imperishable 

 universe. That we of the upper ranks of God's . creation 

 alone possess an inner life which shall transcend all change 

 is no longer a general belief, but there is a growing hope 

 that all nature shares it, and that love is its expression and its 

 method. All existence is a unit. Life, law and love are 

 divine. Man, looking calmly about him, cannot set himself 

 apart as something essentially different from nature, but must 

 recognize himself as a part, and include love in the universal 

 scheme of development. All other expressions of life must 

 share with him in the divine love and progress. His dog- 

 mas, founded on mistaken traditions, have given way to 

 science, and he cannot but believe that love is in and of the 

 soul, and that all life has some sort of development of soul. 

 Because plant-life has no brain, and therefore has no intelli- 

 gence, no mind, no soul, is preposterous to contemplate. 

 Who can positively affirm that brain alone is the seat of 

 conscious intelligence? None but He alone, the Giver of 

 all life, who sits enthroned and exalted in the everlasting 

 heavens. 



