("November, 
638 The Jnterboucl of the 
could express the periods of years intervening between the 
first rudimental stages of matter and the formation of mi- 
nerals. Then is drawn a picture of a person contemplating 
the advent of life on Earth— life as a new development of 
the law of motion : the progression of life vvould be giadua 
until man was reached, bis physical organisation being but 
an ultimate of matter, an effeCt produced by an invisible 
yet eternal cause. Man is now one among millions ot 
forms apparently self-existing, and isolated Irom the gieat 
mass of universal progression. 
Man possesses more than life and sensation, and tor want 
of capacity (i.e., want of a higher sphere whereby can be 
associated that which belongs to this) a conclusion is diaw n 
that because Motion, Life, Sensation, and Intelligence aie 
existing in one form, a theory is sanctioned that Intelligence 
results from organisation ; hence, in the investigation 01 
man’s composition, erroneously the conclusion is ai lived at 
that the principle of mind is eternal, yet not individualised. 
No substance has the power, whether it be physical or in- 
tellectual, of self-comprehension. Grosser substances can 
be traced to the formation of Man, and then Mind, Intelli- 
gence Spirit : although all below is correCtly comprehended, 
here there is a confusion, too much belief or unbelief,— the 
natural consequence of a principle attempting to investigate 
It is necessary to understand the classification of Seiies, 
Degrees, and Representations, in order that Nature and her 
co-existent laws may be comprehended — a focus formed of 
nebulous matter; in other words, a centre produced by a 
conglomeration of particles must of necessity be a body 
crude and heterogeneous, yet a cause— the inherent prin- 
ciple in Matter known as Motion, is co-existent with it. ouch 
an incipient formation is the only basis on which can rest a 
proper understanding of the potency of matter and the 
excellency of ultimates.” The correspondential reasoning 
is based on “ the Cause, which is perpetually producing 
ends and effects.” t . 
“ There is an invisible Cause producing spontaneously 
external Effefts : these may be divided into series, degrees, 
and representations. At first Motion and Mattel existed . 
these formed one series. Vegetable production and its . . . 
developments, and accompanying life, are a second form and 
degree Animal organisation is a third development, or an 
ultimate, or inward or first cause ; its kingdom is a third 
form or degree. The whole forming three series 1— First, 
Matter spontaneously producing and reproducing ends or 
