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highest order of living beings actually connected with the present 
world, as far as we know. Nor is the reason of this conclu- 
sion difficult to understand (p. 151). It does not depend on 
Darwin’s hypothesis, or on any opposite hypothesis. It rests 
on the fact, that while there is much delicacy of construction in 
the cosmical processes, we cannot identify that organization 
with Life. 
27. The matter of life is the same in all animals, so far as 
that the body of one animal is food for another. It 
is inharmonious to conceive of two living systems in anythk^eise 
one Visible Universe. On this ground also we dismiss p^ 3 ent° n u^ e 
the notion of a superior order of living beings to be verse, it is not 
developed in the present physical Universe; and we ° u 
also reject the idea that such unseen intelligences direct the 
delicate cosmical processes around us. 
The Scriptures seem to be in accordance with this decision 
of science, as to the superiority of man (Ps. viii. 3). 
In the Old Testament, man is said to be “ made little The Psalm^, 
less than divine,” — “ a little while lower than the angels ” ; and 
in the New Testament, that he shall “put off mor- 
tality,” and enter into “ incorruption,” and “ life S ' Pau1 ' 
eternal ” ; i.e. the “ unseen.” 
Man is at the head of the visible Universe. If angels exist, 
and even minister to man, they still do not belong to the 
physical or visible Universe. That this is no Future sphere 
for any higher beings than men, seems naturally to follow. 
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28. What then, finally, have we to say of the “Unseen World J 
— (p. 156), having found that the present Visible w , . . . , 
Universe is good for nothing m the w r ay of Im- unseen 
mortality ? and that it may come to an end from ^ 0lld 
exhaustion (p. 155). 
The Law of Continuity assures us that the Visible Universe 
had a beginning, and therefore an Unseen Universe 
preceded it. That Unseen Universe (we shall further fore^ei^ts’ 
note) could not have been “changed into the Sut’Xnhis! 
present.” It exists now independently, and will exist 
when this Visible UAiverse reaches its inevitable end, and 
becomes effete as surely as will each individual. 
“ Through its means we came into existence,” and it is con- 
nected with us now (p. 158). Indeed “the energy of the 
present system must be looked on as derived from the Unseen,” 
and the Unseen is capable of acting on the present. It is 
