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so called," of necessitarianism, which asserts that the 

 first two terms alone were sufficient to work out man's 

 salvation in this world and the next ; and, on the other 

 hand, to that anti-philosophy which asserts that all 

 things in the progress of the human race, social and 

 civil, are regulated by immediate Divine interposition 

 instead of through instrumentalities. Hence the sub- 

 ject divides itself at once into two great departments 

 viz., that of the development of mind or intelligence, 

 and that of the development of morality. 



That these laws are distinct there can be no doubt, 

 since in the individual man one of them may produce 

 results without the aid of the other. Yet it can be 

 shown that each is the most invaluable aid and stimu- 

 lant to the other, and most favorable to the rapid 

 advance of the mind in either direction. 



III. SPIRITUAL OR MORAL DEVELOPMENT. 



In examining this subject, we first inquire (Sect, a) 

 whether there is any connection between physical and 

 moral or religious development j then (/3), what indica- 

 tions of moral development may be derived from history. 

 Finally (7), a correlation of the results of these inqui- 

 ries, with the nature of the religious development in the 

 individual, is attempted, Of course in so stupendous 

 an inquiry but a few leading points can be presented 

 here. 



If it be true that the period of human existence on 

 the earth has seen a gradually increasing predominance 

 of higher motives over lower ones among the mass of 

 mankind, and if any parts of our metaphysical being 

 have been derived by inheritance from preexistent 

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