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In this, as in all things, attractions are proportional to destinies. 

 Men desire, hope for, and believe in a life beyond the grave 

 and this a*lone would prove its reality. But there are abundant 

 proofs besides proofs which have been sufficient to convince 

 the most sceptical infidels, the most bigoted and fanatical of 

 materialists. 



The very nature of man the scope of his intellectual powers 

 the utterly unsatisfying character of his earthly existence 

 the vast number of things he knows but in their beginnings, 

 his ignorance of a thousand things he wishes to comprehend, 

 his partial achievements and his boundless aspirations all 

 assure him that this is but the beginning, and is by no means 

 the end of his conscious existence. Above all, man has proot 

 of immortality in his wish to know more and more of that 

 Infinite, All-Pervading Life in whom we live, and move, and 

 have our being. 



The universe is one. It comes from the same source, is 

 governed by the same laws, and is pervaded by the same 

 Infinite Life. I see no escape from this conclusion, and I 

 cannot comprehend the condition of the mind which can 

 come to any other. The whole universe, or all I know 

 of it, seems to me the thought of a thinker, the design of 

 an artist, the work of an architect, the creation of an Intel- 

 ligent Power, of which I can only say it must be, as Cause, 

 equal to the production of all I am and all I can see in the 

 world around me. If you say this world, the whole universe, 

 all I see, and admire, and love, is but an illusion of my senses ; 

 then I, who am capable of such illusions, am a being all the 

 more wonderful, and I did not make myself. I can make 

 admirable things, but life is far beyond me. I can make teles- 

 cope, microscope, steam-engine; but not a fly, not even a worm. 

 I and the worm equally require for our construction the wisdom 

 and power of the Almighty. 



Half the work for man is done when he can really believe 



