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nition, the world without us must yield to the undoubted 

 existence of the spirit within. Our own hopes and wishes 

 and determinations are the most undoubted phenomena 

 within the sphere of consciousness. If men do act, feel, 

 and live as if they were not merely the brief products of a 

 casual conjunction of atoms, but the instruments of a far- 

 reaching purpose, are we to record all other phenomena and 

 pass over these 1 We investigate the instincts of the ant 

 and the bee and the beaver, and discover that they are led 

 by an inscrutable agency to work towards a distant pur- 

 pose. Let us be faithful to our scientific method, and 

 investigate also those instincts of the human mind, by 

 which man is led to work as if the approval of a Higher 

 Being were the aim of life. 



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