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dwell; but it is the intelligent mind, the loving heart, the well-tried vir- 
tues. And when death has taken our friend, for what is our sorrow? Not 
for the body, so little distinguishable from other bodies, but for the intel- 
lectual and social companion, who had requited our love, but may never 
again ; that instructor and adviser with whom we took wise counsel, but 
shall no more on earth forever. It is for the social and good and generous 
mind that we grieve with a grief that refuses to be comforted, except as 
we find it in the faith that assures us we shall meet again, never again to 
be separated ; a necessary faith of human consolation, and therefore proof 
to ourselves that our minds and virtuous affections shall be immortal, 
This was the testimony of Buckle, as to his own experiences and reflec- 
tions after he had witnessed the slow decline and death of his beloved 
mother; testimony that refuted the skeptical philosophy of his life ; and 
has redeemed his memory from apparent heartlessness, and ‘made it very 
beautiful to those whose philosophy grasps the immortality of the soul. 
Matter and life are always undergoing changes, and both, in the human 
body, kept in health, will live through length of happy years ; but at some 
time they will hasten towards dissolution, and come to the end of their 
organism ; and the life will only thereafter continue as it has been im- 
parted to offspring. But mind or thought is everlasting, if there can 
only be found imperishable material to hold its expressions. If the 
printed page, or the canvas, or marble will endure, the thoughts of the 
author and artist will last forever. The eternal thought can then only be 
assailed through its allied perishable material 3 and that mind shall never 
perish, it only needs an imperishable, a “celestial body;’’ and that it should 
be translated into one, or live independently of one, should be no more a 
mystery to philosophy than that the human soul has existed in its mortal 
habitation ; is not more questionable as within the power of the Almighty 
and His fulfillment of the logic of Tis creation, than the fact that a blade 
of grass shall grow, or that this body is now the habitation of a human life. 
The subject of this discourse might be continued through volumes, and 
the writer be all the while dealing with as veritable realities as those that 
occupy the physicist or naturalist, whose great, deficiency so often is, that 
he becomes so wedded to the material that he disregards the mental and 
moral in his philosophizing, and is, therefore, possessed of but half the 
facts needful as a basis whence to make induction of all the great truths 
of Creation. He needs to know more to become wiser and more chavi- 
table ; and the metaphysician and theologian also need to know all the 
truths of physical nature the former can develop, all of them God’s truths, 
that they may become more fully informed, and, perhaps, more chari- 
table ; that they may clearly know the physical works and laws of the 
Creator, and the more perfectly love and adore Him. Each class is in 
possession of numberless invaluable truths, but neither possesses so many 
as it should know ; and this is partly owing to the wall of partition their 
hostility has erected between them. While it is natural that each should 
cling strongly to its convictions, these convictions must be based upon all 
facts requisite to truth, that they may endure. 
And here let me not be understood as making a general charge of 
