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Science, and revelation, here, mutually bear witness to 

 the existence of the same great truth, viz. that life is 

 continuous, or immortal, and that, therefore, the present 

 life is but a prelude to, and a preparation for, a life, 

 whose end is dynamically impossible and unthinkable, 

 and whose evolution will continue " throughout the 

 endless ages of eternity." We, therefore, hope, that the 

 exponents of the great truths, both of science, and 

 revelation, will become, more and more, impressed with 

 the cogency, and reasonableness, of this conclusion, and 

 will rise to a true appreciation of the sublime helpfulness 

 obtainable from it, when regarded from the respective, 

 standpoints of lay and clerical teachings. A bond of 

 union, between these two great schools of thought, and 

 action, will thus be gained, whereby a feeling of mutual 

 respect will be created, and joint action made possible, 

 in the regions, of human necessity, and divine charity. 



If the law or process of evolution be applicable to the 

 proper understanding of physical and biological progress, 

 then, without unduly burdening it or straining it, we feel 

 that applying it to the apprehension of the,. " progress of 

 things " intellectual and spiritual, we are warranted in the 

 belief, that we are likely to increase our realisation, and 

 extend the horizon of our inner vision, " of things not 

 seen and eternal," and thus of being able, beginning with 

 things provable by the senses and the reason, to undertake 

 the transcendental task of penetrating the far outside spaces 

 of the universe, and the far distant past and future of 

 time, so as, in some infinitesimal degree, to make out the 

 why and wherefore of our existence, and to locate to some 

 extent our whereabouts, and the character of the efforts 

 required to place ourselves inside the area intended for our 

 reception, continued growth, and expansion. 



Spiritualism, in the highest sense of the word, and 

 materialism, viewed from such a standpoint, cease to be 

 antagonistic, and merge, as fragments of the same great 

 body of revealed and scientific fact, into the " weft and 

 woof" of universal truth, in the inseparable bonds of 

 indivisible continuity. 



In the growth, culmination, decay, and dissolution of 

 the human body, we witness the union and disunion of a 



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