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-eondemnation, as deserving. This is inferred from what we know of the 
nature of mind, and the induction that creation must have an adequate 
significance. The great truths of Scripture are inductively reattested by 
the truths of philosophy. 
Thus, then, stands the phenomenon of our being. The matter that 
- enters the body may be, in itself, for all we know, imperishable, but is cer- 
tainly transient in each living body; remains there until effete, and is 
then dismissed by the vital process; or at death passes into vapor and 
ashes, and enters the further rounds of chemical change and vegetable 
and animal growths. The organized being of one generation of the life 
of an unbroken continuity from the first parents has come to an end, 
except as continued by offspring ; but the individual, ungenerated, im- 
material mind, that was neither the matter nor life of the body, lives on 
forever. 
We have seen the life assert a dominating power over all the material 
that has built up the organized body. This life process is essentially one 
independent of the mental will. During gestation this is plainly so; 
and is so through life, except as the mind has power to refuse to conform 
to the laws of health, and may mar life’s healthful functions and dura- 
tion, even to the perpetration of suicide. The circulation, digestion, 
assimilation, and eliminations go on in health almost without our con- 
sciousness; but we are compelled at intervals, by hunger and thirst, to 
keep up the needed supply of food and drink. ‘The brain and nervous 
system are also thus nourished, as the rest of the body,—though it is the 
system especially subjected to the instant dominion of the mind or will. 
The material brain and nerves are not the mind, nor do they produce it, 
but are servants of the mind. Mind is other than the brain and nerves, 
and is other than the life ; and it alone can rule, and must give account 
of itself,—the body, and the life. The vegetable carries on all its given 
life-processes, without sensation and without mind. The animal below 
man does the same, except as it has a limited mental development that 
we call instinct; has also, limitedly, brain and nerves, and senses ; all of 
wonderful fitness for its preservation, which we may not now pause to 
consider. The life of plant or animal will grow to its assigned limit; will 
cure its own wounds, and reproduce its kind; but is other than the 
instinct of the animal, yet more remote from the mind of man: it alone, 
of all beings, has moral responsibility. 
Among the hundred or thousand wonders of the life, whose casua 
explanation can be in Deity alone, and over which mind had no formative 
power, is the fact that every kind of nerve has been fitted for its special 
duty, and can perform no other. There is, in this, admirable design to 
prevent confusion. The nerve of sense can give sensation to, but can 
impart no mandate from the mind. The nerves that execute command 
will give back no sensation. One of each is attached to each serving 
muscle, but neither can do the appointed work of the other. The nerves 
-of sight, hearing, taste, and smell, can neither of them perform the func- 
