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attraction, repulsion, gravitation, and electricity, — these do not 
cease at death. Only their Master-force — Vitality — has ceased. 
They go on playing within and upon the dead body ; and, as 
we know, to its rapid change, yes, to its speedy destruction. 
That which resisted these changing and destroying forces is 
gone. Once dead, the body is seen in its pure materialism — a 
mere lump of matter — the subject of the chemical and mechanical 
forces which never cease to act. How evident, then, is it that 
quite independent of, and separate from, the mass of silent, 
motionless, unanswering matter we call a corpse, there is a life- 
force which was only continued in it for a time, but was not of 
it, or inseparable from it, — a force outside of it, and giving the 
living potency which Materialists assert belongs essentially to 
the atoms of matter. 
Again : This vital or life-force only accounts for life — that 
is, for vitality — in an organized body : it does not account for 
other facts and phenomena of which you and I are conscious. 
Physiologists confess that they cannot account for thought, 
memory, fancy; for any of the feelings such as love, hate, joy, 
fear, hope, despair. And yet this other life of thought and 
feeling is more real to us than anything else. That I think , 
that I love, fear, rejoice, and grieve, are facts of my most real 
life. They need no evidence, no proof, no demonstration. I 
am conscious of them ; and no one can reason, or persuade, or 
frighten me out of this consciousness. For these facts of per- 
sonal consciousness physical science cannot — does not pretend 
to account ; and yet they form the most certain, constant, and 
unchanging life of man. He knows far more about them than 
he does about his digestion, the motion of his blood, or the 
activity of any vital organ. Once more, then, science is face 
to face with an unknown reality — call it force, or substance, or 
life. Life it is — whatever meanings the word life may cover. 
Life which is not physical but Psychical, or spiritual. And 
Science has been compelled to call the force which is so visibly 
active in the life of thought and feeling, the Psychic force. 
There is thus a duality of unknown unanalyzed forces mani- 
fested within us, and the most eminent and trustworthy men 
of science accept this dualit} r . Once more : If the mechanical 
and chemical forces be attached to matter, are not the phases 
or kinds of spiritual force attached to spirit? Is there not an 
entity, appropriate and real, to which they belong ? In answer, 
I quote the following passage : — “ There are various kinds of 
Psychic activity propagated in various impulses, and through 
different organs, but proceeding from one centre, ruled and 
directed by one force. They have a common direction. There 
