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and evanescent as the leaves of trees, that these are mere 
and not realities ?-that the real or cause is 
t i, e effect is a mere transient expression: Matter 
and form cannot be depended upon as producing the same 
and unchangeable appearances, for there is a perpetual 
exhalation and inhalation going on throughout all Nature 
Imperceptibly — a steady flux and reflux of matter The 
causes 0 P f thPse invisible changes are invisible, not to be 
or seen vet nevertheless adtual and real.” Thus 
“ mate the evidence of truth the amount of evidence received 
through the organisation, and not that originating m the 
organisation.” The outward is an instrument, an agent, a 
medium through which may be tested things external. Thus 
“ the Mv is a form, is transient, is changeable ; the internal is 
not chsnEeabfe . The man is the internal; the effect or form 
is external The mind is not acted upon by, but adts on, the 
hodv That which is internal is the reality ; that which it 
a^on is visible and mortal.” Tracing effefts : shows ; an 
incalculable amount of causes and effefts. Tracing cau 
. pffpfts and effects to causes is the true mode of ieasonin b , 
andthts you d'o imagination until is arrived at a chaos 
of existence t there stop breathless, and return to ask- 
What wasthe cause of the first cause t You would no 
have gone on these trackless peregrinations if you had but 
considered all forms and externals are not causes , but 
^The course of reasoning to be pursued will be " ^o c°m- 
mence at the First Cause, and trace causes to effefts ‘until 
thev reach the human body, which is an ultimate effeft of the 
q reat Cause,” and then inversely. The mode of reasoning wil 
be understood by the following illustration -.—Conceive a germ 
hidden in the Earth ; forget its existence, yet in a few years 
cast vour eyes on the spot, it is a tree : “ it is as impossible 
Jo disbelieve its existence as to doubt the germ which produced 
this existence. The tree stands and is visible as an ulti 
h tP man stands and is also an ultimate. The germ of 
™ ate ’ ™ " knew of its existence, but the germ of the 
the u vnn^lo not know of its existence ; but is it not evident 
rhat th °lt°er is at least possible, since the first is known 
an ‘! AlfthPng^ external in forms, series, and degrees, appear 
to different persons to present different mamtestations. A 
, i Fishbough explains “ that forms, series, and 
SPgrees y is the uPiolding of tire various and success.ve stages 
01 “ k you have°a foundation of belief called the evidence of 
