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difficulty, or at least part of it, arises not from any 

 misconception as to what Mind is, (for of this our 

 knowledge is direct,) but from a misconception as 

 to what Matter is — and what the Forces are which 

 we call material. Close analysis of the pheno- 

 mena of Nature, and of our own ideas in regard to 

 them, has already prepared us to believe that these 

 Forces which work in Matter and produce in us the 

 impressions from which we derive our conceptions 

 of it, are themselves immaterial, and can be traced 

 running up into a region where they are lost in the 

 light of Mind. The Christian doctrine of the Re- 

 surrection of the Body sanctions and involves the 

 notion that there is some deep connexion between 

 Spirit and Form which is essential, and which 

 cannot be finally sundered even in the divorce 

 of Death. The affections hold to this idea even 

 more firmly than the intellect. Hence the noble 

 and passionate exclamation of the Poet — 



" Eternal Form shall still divide 



The Eternal Soul from all beside, 

 And I shall know him when we meet." 



But this first sense in which Mind is under 

 * Tennyson's In Memoriam, No. xlvi. 



