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lofty kind of monism can be true, just 

 as a lofty kind of pantheism can be true. 

 But the miserable degraded monism and 

 lower pantheism, which limits the term 

 " god " to that part of existence of which 

 we are now aware sometimes, indeed, to a 

 fraction only of that which limits the 

 term " mind " to that of which we are 

 ourselves conscious, and the term " matter " 

 to the dust of the earth and the other visible 

 bodies, is a system of thought appropriate, 

 perhaps, to a fertile and energetic portion of 

 the nineteenth century, but not likely to 

 survive as a system of perennial truth. 



The term " organ " itself should have given 

 pause to anyone desirous of promulgating a 

 scheme such as that. 



" Organ " is a name popularly given to an 



instrument of music. Without it, or some 



other instrument, no material manifestation 



or display of music is possible ; it is an 



instrument for the incarnation of music 



the means whereby it interacts with the 



material world and throws the air and so our 



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