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is the escape from materialism, that threat of the ignorant 
and unbelieving. Higher conceptions of beauty and greatness 
are now being entertained by the multitudes, and we begin 
to feel that the next great step is being taken when we 
shall become, instead of poor trembling denizens of a perish- 
able world, proud and conscious citizens of an imperishable 
universe. That we of the upper ranks of God’s creation 
alone possess an inner life which shall transcend all change 
is no longer a general belief, but there is a growing hope 
that all nature shares it, and that love is its expression and its 
method. All existence is a unit. Life, law and love are 
divine. Man, looking calmly about him, cannot set himself 
apart as something essentially different from nature, but must 
recognize himself as a part, and include love in the universal 
scheme of development. All other expressions of life must 
share with him in the divine love and progress. His dog- 
mas, founded on mistaken traditions, have given way to 
science, and he cannot but believe that love is in and of the 
soul, and that all life has some sort of development of soul. 
Because plant-life has no brain, and therefore has no intelli- 
gence, no mind, no soul, is preposterous to contemplate. 
Who can positively affirm that brain alone is the seat of 
conscious intelligence? None but He alone, the Giver of 
all life, who sits enthroned and exalted in the everlasting 
heavens. 
