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into which intellect has scarcely penetrated. But 

 whatever it is, it is the best condition for our welfare. 

 We seem to want the flow to stop, and every form to 

 become fixed, so that our feeble intellects can have 

 ''time" to examine them, and take them apart by 

 analysis, and put them together again in our own way, 

 by synthesis. Any how, our philosophers seem to have 

 formed their theories of the reality upon this method, 

 not being able to comprehend, and control the real 

 method. That is the reason that all systems of phil- 

 osophy and science are mechanistic, and anthropomor- 

 phic. We are only capable of conceiving, that nature 

 works as man works, notwithstanding, it is plain to 

 sight, that what little of nature 's work is done on this 

 little speck of matter we call the earth is not done 

 according to the plan of man at all. But, what is 

 the philosopher and scientist to do else? Simply to 

 adopt the most plausible theory, and then continue to 

 reach out by experimentation, for one more plausible. 

 So they, in their mental operations, follow the sup- 

 posed plan of nature, in the flux of reality, always mak- 

 ing, but never made. 



THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF MAN. It is proper, 

 that a few words should be said, in regard to the 

 importance of the work that original investigators 

 of natural phenomena are doing for mankind. The 

 laws of nature are so necessary, to the life and knowl- 

 edge of man, that he who makes a new discovery of 

 them, is a real benefactor. These laws which are 

 merely the inevitable succession of cause and effect in 

 the universe, have heretofore been so little studied and 

 known, that most mankind became indifferent through 

 sheer ignorance. The phenomenon of life, on a globe 

 like ours, being in unison with the other phenomena, is 



