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been found only in conjunction with phenomenal matter. 

 In fact, all that Science has been able to observe in this 

 Protean matter, together with something which she has 

 not observed, but the existence of which she only suspects, 

 we are ready to grant ; and yet we feel compelled to ask 

 Is there not something more than all this phenomenal 

 matter, and all this phenomenal energy ? Is there not 

 something manifested in the universe wholly different 

 from it ? something of which these things are effects ; 

 but which is more than these, and different from these, 

 which in future ages will show far more effects than 

 these, just as to day it shows an infinitely more expanded 

 variety of matter, if so we must call it, than it did in the 

 pleistocene period, and still more, than when it mani- 

 fested itself as only a diffused fiery vapour. 



Was matter the whole at the beginning ? Was there 

 not something behind ? At least, was there not a prin- 

 ciple of development and evolution an immaterial thing, 

 you must allow something which required matter to 

 work upon as material, and by means of which it showed 

 all its marvels ? This process is not matter, and yet 

 this is the essence of the whole universe in time, as it 

 is still the most essential fact in all existence. This 

 process of development requires time, infinite ages, in 

 which to declare itself. It has declared itself on the 

 earth in the various forms of matter, and it has also 

 reached thought. What might not its translations and 

 expressions be through other infinite worlds ? Still only 

 matter, you say, and thought as its product, if there be 

 thought. But are you sure ? and would matter under a 

 sixth or seventh sense, revealing a wholly new side of 

 existence, be our matter ? Would thought, its supposed 

 product, be our thought, if it received its materials 

 through wholly different sources and avenues, perhaps 



