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nor will such ever exist unless mental actions and cerebral 
actions are proved to be one and indivisible. 
It has been said that “ vere scire est per causas scire but 
“ Science,” strictly speaking, deals with nothing more than 
phenomena and secondary causes, and in all cases leaves ns in 
total ignorance of the primary causes of things. It is “ Phi- 
losophy ” in the true sense of the term, which finds its proper 
home in the world of causes. Phenomena, by the very deri- 
vation of the word, are per se only appearances, and they are, 
therefore, at bottom nothing more than our own sensations. 
They are the results of impressions made upon the senses; and 
though this does not prove them to be unreal, it leads us to 
see that they are to a certain extent infected with that fallacious- 
ness and uncertainty which necessarily attends the operation of 
the sense-organs. What “Nature,” then, really is, “ Science ” 
will never teach us; nor can we ever hope to attain to a know- 
ledge of the essence of the universe by means of our scientific 
and natural faculties alone. Still less will these faculties assist 
us in the attempt to fathom that world of the unseen spiritual 
forces of which our material world is but an outward manifest- 
ation, and the very existence of which can only be learned bv the 
moral and emotional faculties. Hence, Science, as pursued only 
in its lower plane, and as divorced from Reason, leads of necessity 
to the conclusion that there exists nothing outside of, or beyond, 
the purely phenomenal ; or, that if such a further region should 
have any existence, it is for ever closed to our investigation by 
the irreversible limitations of our faculties. To this conclusion 
pure Science leads us inevitably ; but its decision in a matter 
of this kind cannot be accepted, unless it be endorsed by the 
higher tribunal of Reason. Nor has this endorsement so far 
been forthcoming. The belief in the merely phenomenal is, by 
its very nature, at variance with the primeval and inherent in- 
stincts of the human race : its life is the life of the Schools and 
not of the People. The senses can show us nothing but 
phenomena — they would cease to be the senses, if they could ; 
but the unquenchable assertions of our souls compel us to believe 
that these Phenomena rest upon a corresponding substratum of 
Facts. It may be, as some philosophers prefer to believe, that 
these facts belong to the domain of the “ unknowable ” — that 
vast and shadowy realm, in which the warm and living human 
spirit incontinently expires for want of air and heat. It may be 
so ; but it is worth our while, even in this case, at least to con- 
vince ourselves that the world of realities is no myth or phantom. 
Whether or not we may ever be able to investigate it, there 
exists a world of which our material cosmos is but the faint 
