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the church in all its branches and science in all its depart- 

 ments may unite their legions of trained followers, and, 

 even if they do not fuse, present an united front to the 

 common^enemy, and go forward cc conquering and to 

 conquer," till the enemies, physical and moral ills, be wiped 

 out, the reinvigoration of the race be effected, and the 

 reign of law, human and divine, be established on a basis 

 of truth and righteousness beyond the need of reform, being 

 adapted to the entirety of human needs and requirements, 

 secular and sacred. 



"There are wheels within wheels" is an expression 

 made use of when things or inventions are elaborate and 

 involved, and when we wish to convey a definition or a 

 criticism of them in a sentence. 



Taking advantage of that very human method of pro- 

 cedure, we are tempted, in conclusion, to venture to sum 

 up, in a few words, the impression which the foregoing 

 studies have left on our mind. 



Man is said to be, and is generally believed to be, 

 composed of soul, mind, or spirit, and body, and with this 

 we can find no fault, but we would add that man, as we 

 meet him in the flesh, is composed of three elements 

 instead of two. The justification for this audacious state- 

 ment is, that he maintains his identity unchanged through 

 all the vicissitudes of existence, both here and, so far as 

 we can infer, hereafter, and that the mind, though dis- 

 embodied, must necessarily retain a belief in the main- 

 tenance of that identity ; hence the mind, soul, or spirit, 

 must, in turn, embody or contain the indwelling ego, the 

 irreducible^ never-dying principle of life, around which the 

 material body was developed, and through which the 

 psycho-dynamic energy of life was materio-dynamically 

 interwoven, to inspire and innervate it inside these 

 material and dynamic elements or fabrics, being evolved 

 from pristine spiritual elements, is the essential ego, with 

 imperishable attributes, capable of maintaining its identity 

 and able to afford it the means of eternal existence and 

 development. 



Thus far materio-dynamic facts and data have been 

 available for metaphysical enquiry, and have enabled us to 

 conclude that metaphysically there are only two separate 



