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even God within physical conditions, and assigning to the supreme 
Spirit the impersonality that is usually ascribed to material na- 
ture; and all this in spite of the fact that profound philosophers 
and earnest devotees have believed in there being a consciousness 
subject to influence above their sense. 
If we look at Nature as science has thus far penetrated into her 
mysteries, we discover in the innermost parts of the earth matter 
in a constantly restless state ; in the ocean or the air we behold the 
ever moving, never resting; above are the sun and stars speed- 
ing on through boundless space, and they in their own masses 
are like huge boiling caldrons casting their vapors hundreds of 
thousands of miles into space. And so the toiler in science 
goes penetrating nearer and nearer, as he thinks, to the great 
cause of all things. In the same way he thinks he has discovered 
the cause of all motion upon this planet, both in the animate and 
inanimate, and he hastily concludes that the energy resident in 
the sun is fixed and invariable; yet while he reasons as if he had 
arrived at the prime cause, he admits that there is something 
__ yet unknown on which the sun depends as much as the earth does 
upon the sun. : 
While I admit most freely that the smallest event in the 
physical world is but the sequence of secondary causes (if I 
May use the expression) and effects, obedient to what appear 
to us fixed and invariable laws, yet it is illogical for any mind to 
assert that they cannot be altered by the operation of some 
energy that may reach beyond any cause yet discovered by the 
light of science. 
While the energy of the sun travels in swift motion and in rapid 
undulations through the ethereal space that divides the earth from 
; , sun, and in turn science by the spectroscope travels back from 
the earth to the sun over the same waves, and has revealed to her, 
in writing as it were, on the beautiful pages of the spectrum, the 
_ Composition of that incandescent globe and the mighty power of 
its internal forces, so does the energy of that great cause that 
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composed of infinite love and mercy, truth and justice. 
_ As light has revealed the sun to us by penetrating an organ 
