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man influences the present and future ages, is a part of this great 

 ocean of energy. But here the great question rolls upon us, Is it 

 only this? Is there not behind this material substances, a higher 

 than molecular power in the thoughts which are immortalized in 

 the poetry of a Milton or a Shakespeare, the art creations of a 

 Michael Angelo or a Titian, the harmonies of a Mozart or a Beeth- 

 oven ? Is there really no immortal portion separable from this 

 brain-tissue, though yet mysteriously united to it ? In a word, does 

 this curiously-fashioned body incloses a soul, God-given and to God 

 returning ? Here science veils her face and bows in reverence 

 before the Almighty. "Wo have passed the bonndaries by which 

 physical science is inclosed. ISTo crucible, no subtle magnetic needle 

 can answer now our questions. ISTo word but His who formed us, 

 can break the awful science. In presence of such a revelation science 

 is dumb, and faith comes in joyfully to accept that higher truth 

 which can never be the object of xiliysical demonstratiou. 



