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extension of his body, he may exert a physical influence many 
thousand miles away. An infinite mind might possess infinite 
command of these conditions and principles, and produce effects 
reaching to the limits of the universe. Fourthly, consciousness 
would become extraordinarily developed in such a mind, and its 
whole vast range of memories be present at will. Prevision 
would have a like extraordinary development. In short, in such 
a mind all that we include in the name Deity would exist. It 
would not be the deity of pantheism, the soul of the world, any 
more than man’s mind is the soul of the machine he has devised, 
and whose motion he controls. The energies of nature would 
exist separately from those of the deific mind, but they would be ` 
mirrored in this mind, and would be infinitely and endlessly sub- 
ject to its control. 
That any developing mind could reach infinity of development 
is, of course, impossible. If such a being as the one here con- 
sidered exists, it must be as a co-eternal existence with the uni- 
verse, a primordial equivalent in conscious of the physical uni- 
verse in unconscious conditions. Yet consciousness and varying 
activity could not exist, even in such a deific mind, except through 
the impulse of energy received from without. Between sucha 
mind and the universe there must be an incessant interchange of 
energies, with consequent modifications in the condition of each. 
But the mobility of mental, as compared with the sluggishness of 
inorganic change, must necessarily make the former the ruling 
agent. Once in harmonious agreement with external conditions, 
it would subsequently, by its rapidity of ideal combination oF 
construction, impose constant new conditions upon external 
nature, and become the sole active moving force in evolution, 
thinking out the universe, as it were, and embodying all its 
thoughts in substance. This idea is offered as a curious specula- 
tion only, a corollary from the view of the mental constitution 
above taken, and as a hypothetical contribution to the somewhat 
extended list of theistical theories extant. 
(To be continued.) 
