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make the faculty of mind, consciousness, imagination and soul but the accident, 
the factory work of mere physical phenomena, which is by courtesy called law. 
And science, though it may never solve the mystery of life, has by these later 
discoveries, forever overthrown the hideous nightmare which in its name has been 
brooding over the human soul and crushing out its aspirations, toward the immortal 
and unknown, by the benumbing weight of materialistic annihilation; that the 
soul of man was but a phantom of chemistry that expired with the fires of its con- 
taining crucible. Because, what from its minutest form and phenomena to its 
aggregation in worlds and systems of worlds is all under law and controlled by 
cause, cannot itself be without cause. This must be, or mind is causeless and 
without existence. How that cause works to produce life is what we are in search 
of, and the hypothesis that is sustained by the facts must be the true one. 
We must, then, in the light of these discoveries, revise the methods of dis- 
cussion, dismissing the old questions and formule, for they constitute a point of 
departure back of which the dogmas of the schools are useles. The materialist 
must revise his theories, for he can no longer borrow from the geologist, nor for- 
tify himself from the earlier teachings of the astronomer. The sun is no longer 
a mere furnace, stoked by meteors and cometic fuel; this old earth of ours is no 
more a mass of cooled slag, nor is space a void where eternal cold is only dis- 
turbed by the swift rush of planets as they swing their eternal round, the first 
worshipers of the inevitable fire that will go out when all are consumed. The 
evolutionist, too, must seek elsewhere than in the festering ferments of primeval 
slime for that divine spark, which first chambered in a sponge now questions the 
mysteries of the first cause from this borderland between the living and the life; 
that has laid its hand upon the forces that grasp the solar system and keeps the 
stars and worlds in their places; that finds in space the same materials that com- 
pose the rocks, the water, the air, and that makes planet responsive to planet, 
each giving and receiving that which in common phenomena proclaims them 
all akin. He must find, not a life animal and vegetable alone, existing where 
all else is dead, but a universe instinct with a life far beyond that of any of its 
parts, of which our life on this little globe is but a result, a mere expression of the 
all pervading source of life from which the worlds were born, and in which the 
universe exists. 
Prof. E. S. Holden, of the Naval Observatory at Washington, has accepted 
the managership of Washburn Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin, made vacant 
by the death of Prof. Watson, and will enter upon his duties within a few weeks. 
