and persevering research, progress; and where 

 will it eventually lead us to, as our brains become 

 more and more familiar with the simple explana- 

 tion, by the working of universal natural law, of 

 what we now regard as mystery? There is no 

 standing still, and the only repose in nature is 

 that of study, constant, relentless, and everlasting 

 motion onward, calm, unerring, unpitying, and in- 

 exorable. 



Of what significance, in all this stupendous 

 grandeur, can the individual be except to himself 

 as a transitory atom in infinity? 



George Eliot said : " Consequences are unpity- 

 ing," and so they are and must be since they are 

 the inexorable sequence of causes governed by 

 the immutable laws of nature which recognize no 

 possibility of deviation. These same immutable 

 laws are the force which has infallibly brought 

 about and guided all development up to its highest 

 form in the structure and working of the human 

 brain ; and in this brain perhaps the most wonder- 

 ful phase of operations is unconscious cerebration, 

 when the brain works by itself and without any 

 deliberate or active exercise of will or concen- 

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