HEAT AND COLD. 



nature that shifts down the ages will revert to the 

 source of its power. It will be present in the unchange- 

 able law which it was an earthly exponent while be- 

 ing in the mutation known as the man. 



It cannot be possible that a mind dwelling in the 

 form of man for a day, while surveying all nature and 

 seeing his form of life compounded in the mists of 

 the past ages, millions of years before he came into 

 being, could lapse into nothingness. Especially w r hen 

 we consider the grasp of his knowledge while dwelling 

 in the eternal action transmitted to his senses by nerves 

 that are all pervading in their grasp. What renders it 

 more unlikely that he should lapse into nothingness is 

 the fact that the thoughts that are his, are the acts that 

 are unavoidable millions of years hence, and they are 

 unceasing and unchangeable, throughout all the grand 

 purpose. We must conclude that the mind will live 

 if it conforms to the true order of action, and that it 

 will pass out of being or change form when not in 

 conformity with the true law of nature. 



But as to the perpetuation of form we must strike 

 from consideration such question once and forever, 

 as we have no other guide only what is revealed to us 

 by the passing action of nature. Passing action show- 

 ing change in every moving thing. Passing action 

 showing change in every conceivable thing but the laws 

 of action. The laws of action being the one and only 

 property which appears to be unchangeable. The 

 laws being ponderable to the mind and not being 

 ponderable to none other. 



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