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next to it in order — errors and omissions excepted. 

 It crosses and thwarts what comes next to it with 

 difference that involves resemblance, and resemblance 

 that involves difference, and there is no juxtaposition 

 of things that differ too widely by omission of necessary 

 links, or too sudden departure from recognised methods 

 of procedure. 



To conclude ; bodUy form may be almost regarded 

 as idea and memory in a solidified state — as an 

 accumulation of things each one of them so tenuous as 

 to be practically without material substance. It is as 

 a million pounds formed by accumulated miUionths of 

 farthings ; more compendiously it arises normally from, 

 and through, action. Action arises normally from, 

 and through, opinion. Opinion, from, and through, 

 hypothesis. " Hypothesis," as the derivation of the 

 word itself shows, is singularly near akin to " under- 

 lying, and only in part knowable, substratum ; " and 

 what is this but " God " translated from the language 

 of Moses into that of Mr. Herbert Spencer ? The 

 conception of God is like nature — it returns to us in 

 another shape, no matter how often we may expel 

 it. Vulgarised as it has been by Michael Angelo, 

 EaffaeUe, and others who shall be nameless, it has been 

 like every other corrwptio optimi — pessimum, : used 

 as a hieroglyph by the help of which we may better 

 acknowledge the height and depth of our own ignorance, 

 and at the same time express our sense that there is 

 an unseen world with which we in some mysterious 

 way come into contact, though the writs of our thoughts 

 do not run within it — used in this way, the idea and 



