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quite possible that the luminiferous ether may be 
nifJrous ether even a medium between the Seen and the Unseen 
may be a me. Universe. When energy leaves its present home 
the two (“ matter it is carried from the visible into the 
invisible ; and when from ether into matter it is 
born from the invisible to the visible. Ether may be a medium 
( plus the invisible order of things) of the passage to a Future 
life. But this is a speculation. 
Our mental constitution connects us with both worlds. We 
have seen that thought affects the substance of the visible 
s ed n world, and produces a material organ ot memory 
borscT hypo- (p. 159) ; and thought may simultaneously com- 
thesis ' municate with the unseen Universe, while it is 
linked with the visible. 
29. Suppose we thus possess even but the rudiments of a 
a spiritual f rame connecting us with the Unseen Universe — in 
body is now other words a spiritual body ; each thought of ours, 
here partly stored in our physical memory, may also 
be registered (and even more fully) in our “ spiritual body,” to 
take up the associations of the past. 
Our active energy after death may have the 
physically 're- materials also of former life to work on. 
may b be G so in Dr.Young says, in a beautiful and comprehensive 
the spiritual p assa ge : “ Immaterial substances are not contra- 
°Dr Youn dieted by anything in physical philosophy (p. 160). 
i. oung. ^ na | 0 g^ es even j ea( j us towards them. The electrical 
fluid may be essentially different from common matter (in the 
usual sense of the term) ; the general medium of light and heat 
equally so. They seem but semi-material in any case ! So also 
the immediate agents in attraction and gravitation (p. 161). 
Spiritual worlds, unseen for ever by human eyes, may co-exist 
with the physical and not touch,” being unrelated to space. 
30. Tiie authors next proceed (p. 166) to reply to objections 
(and with much success), — both theological objections and 
scientific. They maintain the idea, however, of spiritual 
bodies as rudimentally existing now. They are not a Divine 
creation to take place at the Resurrection (p. 167). 
Alternative: Then, finally, the objection lias to be met as to 
cedingUnseen the Christian assertion of the Resurrection of Christ, 
eituerhad life which assures a future life, (and so the whole miracle 
or had it not. ’ of our Revelation also). In considering this, they treat 
This argu- length the whole problem of the Universe, view- 
to p. 202 . mg it from its past. 
The Visible Universe must have been developed through 
either living or dead precedential (for admit the Principle of 
