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order, and seen to be a part of a great whole, one and 

 indivisible, each and every fragment " showing " or being 

 shown to be essential, generally and particularly, in its 

 topographical relationships, and in the totality of its 

 functions and applications, while distinct and differenti- 

 able in its individual and local relationships, the one 

 fragment thereby affecting the other, as well as the great 

 mosaic, or whole, which they, together and individually* 

 make up, or form. 



Time and eternity so viewed are interchangeable and 

 continuous ; space, dimension, and locality are continuous,, 

 energy in varying intensity, it may, or must be, inter- 

 penetrates and overspreads the universe, matter, as 

 differentiated from energy in its so-called imponderable 

 condition or part, overspreads the whole of space and 

 becomes as ether, matter within matter, or ordinary 

 matter. When observed in the gross or ponderable 

 state of substance, or the material elements known to 

 physics and chemistry, this inorganic matter by virtue 

 of vital energy becomes organic, lives, and has its being 

 for a more or less brief period, when it returns by death 

 or dissolution to its original sources, every atom of 

 matter and unit of energy, the former, it may be, to 

 be re-energised, the latter to perpetuate the potential 

 qualities of living force or being, amongst the qualities 

 of which are those of indestructibility, immortality, 

 and everlastingness, all of which are inevitable, with the 

 certainty of intrinsic necessity secured by the existence 

 of the " law " of eternal and never-ending continuity^ with 

 its unbroken cycles and circles of sequential association 

 of occurrence and evolutionary determination. 



These great fragments of our accepted knowledge of 

 the cosmos constitute, in their entirety, the foundation 

 of the further great, though minute, developments of the 

 truth, as now known to and appreciated by the educated 

 human intellect, and so lend themselves to the proper 

 realisation and appreciation of the great strides made 

 the leaders of thought in their studies of human life and 

 destiny. At that stage of materio-dynamic evolutionary 

 progress reached when organic matter has assumed 

 high-water level of attainment, viz. at the creation, ( 



