unknowable future, after life is extinct, I think 

 it will be acknowledged is the essence of religion. 



As regards our senses, which we must analyze 

 in order that we may see clearly what our means 

 of understanding a difficult problem are, we must 

 remember that they consist really of only one 

 sense, and that a very material one. It is the 

 sense of touch or contact, in progressive degrees 

 of refinement. 



FirstTouch. 



Second Taste, or the appreciation and distinc- 

 tion of finer particles. 



Third Smell, or the appreciation of still finer 

 particles. 



Fourth Hearing, or the appreciation of the 

 impact of sound-waves. 



Fifth Sight, or the appreciation of the impact 

 of the much finer vibrations of light. 



We have no other means or apparatus for re- 

 ceiving or collecting impressions, and this ap- 

 paratus consists of a series of instruments, name- 

 ly, " feelers," of a very imperfect nature, however 

 marvelous we may consider them to be. They 

 are connected with and constitute the scouts and 



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