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would believe in such a possibility, seems almost as absurd as the state- 

 ment that such inquiries lead of necessity to the denial of any higher 

 power than that which in various forms is manifested as "force," on this 

 small portion of the universe. It is almost as absurd, but not quite. 

 For, surely, he who recognizes the doctrine of the mutual convertibility 

 of all forces, vital and physical, who believes in their unity and imperish- 

 ableness, should be the last to doubt the existence of an all-powerful Being, 

 of whose will they are but the various correlative expressions; from whom 

 they all come; to whom they return. 



