Human Physiology. 



attractions and repulsions of atoms or molecules of matter, but 

 from other forces guided by intelligence, and working upon 

 definite designs for special purposes. There is no chance work 

 in life no fortuitous concurrence of atoms. The insect, with 

 its various organs, its multitudinous eyes, its wide-spreading 

 wings, its nervous powers expressed in inconceivably rapid 

 muscular action, and all the instincts of its varied existence, is 

 a work of the most wonderful mechanism, the most perfect art, 

 of an inconceivable intelligence. All we living things are " fear- 

 fully and wonderfully made." The mystery of life is the grandest 

 and most terrible of all mysteries. But all the phenomena of 

 life in the world around us, and in our own consciousness, lead 

 to one result the recognition of the Life which is the source of 

 life Infinite Power and Infinite Wisdom a life which is to the 

 whole universe of matter and of mind, what life is to every 

 living thing in the world around us the Life of Life. 



CHAPTER VI. 



HUMAN LIFE AND IMMORTALITY. 



The Highest Powers of Life in Humanity Sexual Life Social Life- - 

 Health and Disease Health Forces Spiritual Radiation of Life 

 Spiritual Attractions and Repulsions Spiritual Powers of Animals 

 Clairvoyance, Dreams, Trance The Spirit Life Proofs of Immortality. 



LIFE manifests to us its highest powers in humanity. There 

 are, I doubt not, created intelligences surpassing us, and even 

 our conceptions; but man stands at the head of the portion of 

 nature subject to his cognition; he is the highest form of earthly 

 life. The lower animals have in some respects faculties differ- 

 ing from his, some which he may envy, some which are 

 incomprehensible to him. "O that I had the wings of a doveP 



