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the sure basis of continuity and oneness throughout the 

 entire universe, so to speak ; thus the matter, energy, and 

 spirit, recognised and claimed as separate entities in the 

 light of the most recent and special researches, not only 

 co-exist but merge insensibly into each other, each dwell- 

 ing in the other by degrees so regular and rhythmic as to 

 constitute one cycle and one universal whole the whole 

 consisting with the inexorable necessity of continuity 

 and oneness of all its parts, the one part being as essential 

 as the other for the working of the whole with the 

 absoluteness of u the reign of law." 



Matter is appreciable by the unaided senses in their 

 immediate vicinity, and, distantly, by the aid of scientific 

 instruments and faith in the existence of universal law ; 

 energy, by the same means ; and spirit, by the use of 

 scientific methods of observation and elimination, com- 

 bined with " faith in the reality of things not seen " or 

 appreciable by the senses, but apprehendable by the exercise 

 of the human intellect in the highest and innermost regions 

 of consciousness, and metaphysical analysis of intellectual 

 being and phenomena. These three phases of recognised 

 existences or entities, the physical, the dynamical, and the 

 spiritual, constitute the cosmos, and for their proper study 

 and definite appreciation, call for a combined as well as an 

 individual study and research, in order that their inde- 

 pendent, as well as their mutual and inter-dependent, 

 working should be fully understood, so that the application 

 of the resultant knowledge can be applied to whatever 

 utilitarian purpose it is possible to adapt it, to the end 

 that the right and proper use of knowledge should be the 

 ultimate end and aim of entire humanity. 



The accumulation of particular knowledge, and the 

 relegation of its fragments to appropriate niches in the 

 " temple of truth," render it more and more necessary, and, 

 in fact, essential, that besides the classification and proper 

 arrangement of these facts, a general disposition of them 

 should be made by which they can be viewed in relation 

 to each other, with a view to the full appreciation of their 

 respective proportions and inter-relationships, and the 

 ultimate realisation of a complete mosaic, so to speak, of 

 knowledge, in which the design of the pattern or picture 



