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true that as from the dust of the earth they have 

 arisen so to that dust they will with like assurance 

 yet return. And Science, in her dismal corner of the 

 Universe of knowledge, once more may proclaim that 

 dust and ashes are really all that is ! And yet if we do 

 not know what dust and ashes are, if atoms and elec- 

 trons are only elements of mind stuff, why then should 

 we object if we once more return to that mind in which 

 and from which we also have had our origin, the 

 cradle of our birth, that great ocean of thought in 

 which we live and move and have our being ? Whether 

 that great ocean is itself conscious of itself, we cannot 

 say : but our own deep conviction is that in that self- 

 consciousness alone would its unity exist as a reality. 

 Whether we too, dim units that we are, shall persist 

 self-conscious in that great ocean independently of 

 all time, science again cannot answer. Many men 

 will say yes. Not because they think it ; but because 

 they feel it must be so. The old answer is the same 

 as that which Plato had to give more than 2,500 

 years ago, although he cannot have been blind to its 

 inadequacy : that if Goodness and Love, like truth, 

 be realities, whatever atoms may really be, that 

 which delights in virtue must be happy, and in 

 harmony with the totality of things. In the corre- 

 lation of vital phenomena are that unity and that 

 plurality at once rendered a continuous whole. 



