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has this great advantage that it is not 

 a mere doctrine or a mere theory, nor an 

 hypothesis, but a visible and undoubted 

 fact. Nobody can deny or dispute it. 

 Nowhere has it been more profoundly 

 expressed and described, in its deepest 

 meanings and significance, than in the 

 words of that great metaphysician 

 whoever he may be who wrote the 

 Epistle to the Hebrews, when he 

 describes the Universe as a system in 

 which " the things which we see were 

 not made of things that do appear." 

 That is to say, that all its phenomena 

 are due to causes which lie behind 

 them, and which belong to the Invisible. 

 Nor can we even conceive of its being 

 otherwise. The causes of things 

 whatever these may be are the sources 

 out of which all things come, or are 

 developed. What these causes are has 

 been the Great Quest, and the great 



