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What has cliiefly tended to take mind, in tlie eyes of 

 learned and unlearned, out of the range of nature, is 

 its apparently irregular and wayward character. Ifovv 

 different the manifestations in different beings ! how 

 unstable in all ! — at one time so calm, at another so wild 



than we can look forward the other way into the h^st developments of 

 mind? Can we say that (rod has not in matter itself hiid the seeds 

 of every {acuity of mind, rather than that he has made the first prin- 

 ciple of mind entirely distinct from that of matter ? Cannot the first 

 cause of all we see and know \\^sq frawjld matter itself, from its 

 re.ri/ herjinning, with all the attributes necessarf/ to decelop into mimh 

 as well as he can have from the first made the attributes of mind 

 wholly different from those of matter, only in order afterwards, by an 

 imperceptible and incomprehensible link, to join the two together? 



" * * [The decombination of the matter on which mind rests] 

 is this a reason why mind must be annihilated ? Is the temporary 

 reverting of the mind, and of the sense out of which that mind 

 develops, to their original component elements, a reason for thinking 

 that they cannot again at another later period and in another higher 

 globe, be again recombined, and with more splendour than before ? 

 * * The Xew Testament does not after death here promise us a 

 soul hereafter unconnected with matter, and which has no connexion 

 with our present mind — a soul independent of time and space. That 

 is a fanciful idea, not founded on its expressions, when taken in their 

 just and real meaning. On the contrary, it promises us a mind like 

 the present, founded on time and space ; since it is, like the present, 

 to hold a certain situation in time, and a certain locality in space : 

 but it promises a mind situated in portions of time and of space 

 different from the present ; a mind composed of elements of matter 

 more extended, more perfect, and more glorious : a mind which, 

 formed of materials su})plied by different globes, is consequently able 

 to see farther into the past, and to think farther into the future, than 

 any ruind here existing : a mind which, freed from the partial and 

 uneven combination incidental to it on this globe, will be exempt 

 from the changes for evil to which, on the present globe, mind as 

 well ai3 matter is liable, and will only thenceforth experience the 

 changes for the better which matter, more justly poised, will alone 

 continue to experience : a mind which, no longer fearing the death, 

 the total decomposition, to which it is subject on this globe, will 

 thenceforth continue last and immortal.'' — Horn, On the Origin and 

 Prospects of Man, 1 83 1 . 



