ADDRESS. CV 



cing tlicin prematurely in the rank of ascertained truths, and buikling further 

 conclusions on them as if they were. 



When from the phenomena of life we pass on to those of mind, we enter 

 a region still more profoundly mysterious. We can readily imagine that we 

 may here be dealing with phenomena altogether transcendiug those of mere 

 life, in some such way as those of life transcend, as I have endeavoured to 

 infer, those of chemistry and molecular attractions, or as the laws of chemi- 

 cal affinity in their turn transcend those of mere mechanics. Science can be 

 expected to do but little to aid us here, since the instrument of research is 

 itself the object of investigation. It can but enlighten us as to the depth of 

 our ignorance, and lead us to look to a higher aid for that which most nearly 

 concerns our wellbeing. 



