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our bounden duty to listen to, if we do not take advantage 

 of, what she says, inasmuch as she constitutes the advanced 

 guard of the mental forces, the telescope through which 

 the " eye of the mind " surveys the universe, the camera 

 by which are secured negatives and pictures from scenes 

 more remote than the most distant stars, and nearer than 

 the innermost soul of man. 



Thus it becomes apparent to her view, when suspended 

 by reason in the illimitable region of the unknown like a 

 spider in mid air, let down by a strand of web into the 

 lower depths, to acquaint himself with the surrounding 

 " situation " that the prospect for ever deepens and 

 widens as the rope of suspension continues to be given 

 out, until she realises that there is no end to the limit 

 of her vision, and at last, fatigued and worn by her 

 quest, she seeks to return to her mental companions to 

 put before them the results of her experience in the 

 depths of the unexplored and unknown. Of the media^ 

 in which the evolution and final destiny of man are 

 effected, she has imaged to herself as she has swung, 

 telescoping and microscoping into the most distant regions 

 of space and into the nearest and innermost depths of 

 things, that these consist of the material universe aggre- 

 gated into u sun, moon, and stars," of the illimitable ether, 

 which fills all space and inter-penetrates all material, and 

 of an intangible, imponderable, but yet appreciable medium^ 

 which " seems " to inter-penetrate the ether and control 

 the dynamic agencies of the universe. The whole three, 

 being welded and merged in each other telescopically, or 

 in such a way that there is no loss of continuity of 

 texture, no loss of purpose and no irregularity of result, 

 i.e. so far as results can be reckoned in an infinitely 

 extended field of operations over an infinitely extended 

 period of time, or, in another word, eternity. Imagina- 

 tion having thus unburdened herself to her mental 

 companions, with reason in the chair, so to speak, on 

 the occasion of their examination and arrangement of her 

 efforts, she is rewarded, in recognition of her efforts, with 

 the honour of a unanimously affirmative a finding," or 

 verdict, on the value of her labours. 



It follows, therefore, from this finding and verdict, that 



