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and concrete elements or entities existent, and that these 

 are the ego and non-ego, respectively representing in 

 their relative proportions the infinitely small and the 

 infinitely vast, the microcosm of the individual human 

 unit and the macrocosm of the universe, the two occupy- 

 ing separate planes of being, while indissolubly related 

 as cause and effect, and, therefore, essential as constituent 

 parts of a whole, and as absolutely continuous, the one 

 with the other. 



But this psychological and metaphysical finding, true as 

 it is, arouses no mental enthusiasm, kindles no intel- 

 lectual flame, and evokes no emotion, save that of the 

 pleasure of attaining knowledge, and applying it, however 

 imperfectly, to the unravelment of human destiny. We 

 are compelled, therefore, as " babes and sucklings," to 

 turn or return for support and energy to the pure font ot 

 revealed truth, where we find what science needs to com- 

 plete its conquests in the cause of the truth, the whole 

 truth, and nothing but the truth, where we are met with 

 such expressions as " there is a place prepared for you " 

 not necessarily defined, named, or numbered, but cap- 

 able of unlimited or indefinite expansion to meet all 

 possible developments, and " but it does not yet appear 

 what we shall be," the general and individual plans, as to 

 the destiny of the human family not having been yet un- 

 rolled, the problems involved therein being but in 

 process of solution, and the everlasting fiat withheld till 

 u the fulness of the time has come," and a great definite 

 arrangement, lasting for eternity, becomes effected. 



With " the mind's eye " and reason, without a violent 

 stretch of imagination, all this seems capable of realisation, 

 and conformable to the requirements of truth and human 

 destiny. 



