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its still living, dynamic, inter-penetrating, and animating 

 part or principle betaking itself along other lines of 

 necessarily non-material development into regions where 

 the organs of sense, did they still exist, could not be 

 functionally affected, but where, from sacred, and thus 

 also from secular, sources of information we are warranted 

 in believing, nay, compelled to believe, that there is an 

 existence for it still to come as continuous and, therefore, 

 unending as any or all of those evolutionary and deter- 

 mining lines which have conducted to the genesis and ascent 

 of man, and as pregnant with possibilities and potentialities 

 for further development and evolution as great, and it 

 may be much greater, than were wrapped up in and 

 evolved from the first act of creation. 



The immortality of man's immaterial part or, to call it 

 by its usual name, soul, is thus claimed by science as an 

 indisputably warranted fact or axiom, deducible from the 

 reading of the book of nature, where it is written as 

 clearly and legibly as any message which has been trans- 

 mitted through the ages for our information by means of 

 sacred writ or floated down the streams of human story 

 and tradition from father to son and mother to daughter, 

 from Adam and Eve, to the present or last generation of 

 their descendants. 



The immortality of the soul of man is, therefore, the 

 final terrestrial differentiation observable in that series of 

 continuous changes constituting his evolution from the 

 matter and energy of this planet, and represents a product 

 only producible by absolutely consummate intelligence to 

 devise and absolutely perfect control over the material and 

 dynamic universe to make. If this be a, but not the, true 

 " rinding" of science as we contend it is, then it behoves 

 science and revelation to approach each other, and to 

 '"join hands" in mutual recognition of the great and 

 unmistakable fact that, as they are alike pursuing the 

 conquest of the same vast regions of the unknown, and 

 letting in on them the light of truth, they are each bound 

 to accept what the other can give to fit it the better to 

 perform its great work ; therefore we beseech both to let 

 ' bygones be bygones," and, once for all, agree to merge 

 their forces in a united effort to instil into the mind of 



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