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the phenomena of the will no less than in those of the 

 imagination and the memory, for this commingling of 

 being may be looked upon as itself unintelligible unless 

 it be assumed that different people are by being 

 subject to the law of unity in diversity and diversity 

 in unity substantially one. 



So likewise with the intellect. The mighty power 

 which speculates, not only upon the world of appear- 

 ances, but upon such abstract mysteries as infinity, 

 eternity, absolute goodness, absolute truth, absolute 

 justice, unity, cosmical law, Deity which is ever asking 

 why, and never doubting that it is entitled to a satis- 

 factory answer in every case, which is as free of time 

 and space as are the powers of memory and imagination, 

 is surely something more than cerebration or anything 

 of the kind. And, as surely, this impression is only 

 deepened by looking into the facts a little more par- 

 ticularly. 



As it seems to me, the notion that the intelligence is 

 something which is hemmed in within the bounds of 

 the body or subjected to any kind of limitation, is flatly 

 contradicted by the simple presence in the mind of any 

 abstract idea. It is to me inconceivable that the idea of 

 eternity, for example, can have a lodgement in a brain- 

 cell. I might, perhaps, allow that impressions of a 

 certain sort upon this cell may "by myriad blows" 

 give rise to the notion of time ; but that any multiplica- 

 tion of these impressions should cause the idea of time to 

 change into that of eternity is altogether beyond my 

 powers of comprehension. These two ideas have 

 nothing in common ; and to think that the idea of 

 eternity should arise in this way, would seem to be 

 almost as absurd as to suppose that a clock, by dint of 



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