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brines of the Romish confessional, than behind the 

 curtains of portions of fashionable society to the 

 whispered lies used in defence of the ghastly murder 

 of the unborn ! [Applause.] 



18. If a babe cannot be said to be other than an 

 animal until it has a soul, and if it has no soul until 

 it has a memory, and if the destruction of its life is 

 not a crime until it has a soul, then it is usually no 

 crime to take the life of an infant under one year of 

 age. 



19. If a babe that has no conscience may be guilt- 

 lessly murdered, then, until a child arrives at an age 

 of three or five years, the killing of it is no crime. 



20. By self-division, there may be produced from 

 one life many lives. 



21. The new lives are created by being evolved. 



22. They were all in the capacities of the original 

 type of the co-ordinating power. 



23. The power of matter is a gift from God, under 

 limits of necessity. 



24. The power of life in man is a gift under con- 

 cession of freedom. 



25. God is immanent in mind as well as matter. 



26. Molecular law may be the profoundest expres- 

 sion of the Divine will. 



27. The continuity of nature is only the continuity 

 of the Divine plan and its execution. 



28. A thorough-going recognition of the Divine 

 immanence and omnipresence both in mind and 

 matter is the only explanation of the origin of souls 

 and of the laws of hereditary descent. 



