The Interbond of the 
[November, 
640 
On such foundation the mind contemplates Nature pro- 
ducing grand effects in infinite progression, and cannot fail 
to perceive the adaptation of means to an end as displaying 
proof of design. The cause of all things lies deeply behind 
all external appearances. Thus a sure basis is given 
whereon to test the hopes of the future. A future life is 
proved, making it sure and eternal as the laws which govern 
the Universe. It is not the object at this time to prove its 
how and what, but that it shall be. Presently I shall trace 
generally and particularly, from the Great Positive Mind, 
the Cause, Effect, and Ultimate of all things ; and this will 
exhibit the infinite progression of all particles in existence, 
and show that this progression developes the principle so 
long involved in obscurity, viz., Spirit. 
The original cause was Nature as a means to produce its 
ultimate, Spirit , — which must be individualised to establish 
communion and sympathy between the Creator and the 
thing created, for the Spirit progresses to the source from 
whence it came, and then only becomes fitted for new 
spheres of its eternal existence. 
By palaetiological fadts* it is proved that the substance or 
essential principle becomes individualised when Man is made 
the instrument, and by such individualisation it becomes 
the future and .corresponding principle, Spirit. Matter con- 
tains the essence and properties to produce Man as a pro- 
gressive ultimate, so Motion contains the properties to 
produce Life and Sensation ; these together, perfectly or- 
ganised, develop the principle, Spirit, not as a consequent 
of the organisation, but as the result of the combination of 
all the elements and properties of which the organisation is 
composed. Such principle (Spirit) must have existed 
eternally as emanating from the Great Source and Fountain 
of Intelligence. 
Man developes from the germ, until finally the original 
cause developes, in his maturer condition, the principle of 
spiritual life , whilst he, again as a material substance, repro- 
duces his like, and thus he forms one circle of united adtion. 
The geologist, investigating strata, finds the remains of 
“ Mollusca, Radiata, Articulata, Vertebrata (forms and 
* Paltetiological is explained by Mr. Fishbough to come from palaios, old 
or former, aitia , a cause, and logos, a discourse. Paltetiological sciences are 
those sciences formerly established which conspire in the formation of a cause 
or foundation from which other conclusions may be developed. The word 
clains Geology, Anatomy, Physiology, &c., forming proofs of the united chain 
of existences. 
