“ Ultimate Religions Ideas.''' [September, 
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incandescent mass (?) or as mist : research of Science shows 
that there are such mists floating in the sky, and that their 
material has been examined, and by deductions it is con- 
cluded that all these mists consist of cosmic materials.. We 
are still in the region of phenomena, and the conception of 
them is attained by a mental contrasting of minute effects 
with gigantic ones. The mind through observation discovers 
an uniformity of aCtion, and for convenience the unity of 
effects is called law,— a law by which all phenomenal effects 
are governed, but when the mind extends itself beyond phe- 
nomena it reasons only on the conceptions which are the 
effects of its own presentments, and are judged by rules 
not drawn from the phenomena, but which are the inven- 
tions of itself, and by which it insists that the precession of 
its conceptions shall be governed. Observations on pheno- 
mena have disclosed a law by which they are governed, and 
we say the law had an institutor because the human faculty 
is able to frame laws by which it can govern and produce 
sequences, the outcomes of the law. But the law governing 
natural phenomena, being no institution of man, by induc- 
tive reasoning it is inferred that this phenomenal law had 
also an institutor with an intelligence and power equal to 
command the effects produced. Man finds, to institute his 
law, he must employ his intelligence in order to arrange his 
sequences and produce a harmonious result.: when he 
arrives at the I think, or thought in the comparison of phe- 
nomena, he by induction arrives at an I think, or intelligence 
commensurate with its production, and as his I think is an 
individualism, by a parity of reasoning we should say that 
the I think discovered in phenomena is also an individualism 
or entity; and as he disinters from phenomenal natuie the 
mystery of a cause not existing in the. world of the. seen, so 
he arrives at a consciousness comprising within itself an 
intelligence with the capacity to produce natural phenomena. 
Beyond the true region of phenomena the human mind does 
not realise the conceptions which its own ideas have pre- 
sented, but makes these conceptions subjective, and presents 
them as objects, but which the mind fails to translate in 
their faCts, and these ideas being insoluble in thought remain 
as conceptive symbols. The beyond is not unthinkable, but 
unfathomable. 
There are many images presented in the mind, but they 
are faCts only because of their presentment in conscious- 
ness, for in consciousness alone is comprised all phenomenal 
existence, and this phenomenal existence is the range of the 
human intelleCf. Within these ranges man frames his own 
