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“mark of the beast ” will be upon it, both now and for ever. 
Yes, the soul of Man— though repudiated by Anthropologists 
— is the only deathless element of his nature and constitution, 
and will find no lasting rest in all its philosophical experiments 
and best scientific observations, until it returns from such 
exclusive physical researches, and learns to behold itself in 
God, and God in all things. The relations of Man to the 
Lower Animals form the prime objects, on the present 
occasion, as materials of method, and the proper contem- 
plation of those relations is the indispensable condition of 
discussing them methodically. The following method is, I 
think, the leading thought, as an act of the Mind, which shall 
unite, and make many things — one ; Man, himself, in the 
science of True Anthropology, the key-note of the harmonies of 
Physical Science, in relation to the higher sentiments of the 
genus Homo, no matter whether his skin be red, white, black, 
or yellow, or his geographical distribution denominated Cau- 
casian, Mongolian, American, Ethiopian, Malay, or any of its 
subdivisions. All those departments of the Science of Man 
which deal with the material elements of Animal Organi- 
zation, can only be adequately investigated, or successfully 
prosecuted by the scientific methods belonging to the Philo- 
sophy of Matter. The Psychological departments of Organic 
Nature, or Brain Protoplasm, can, in like manner, only be 
satisfactorily investigated by the method belonging to the 
Science of Mind. Equally true is it that the Moral and Keli- 
gious elements, which belong to Man, and to Man only, of all 
created beings known to this sphere, not only indicate, by 
their very existence, a method of inquiry, and a kind of 
evidence distinct altogether from those on which we base 
our scientific knowledge of Physical and Psychical phenomena 
in animals ; but,, also, involve in their essential character, 
absolutely, that immediate relation which they enjoy to the 
Great Father of All, who, in his wisdom, rules all ; not as the 
mere Pantheistic Spirit of the Universe, but as the Lord and 
g-iver of our world of Humanity, who is not only the God of 
Nature, but the Moral Governor of the Human Soul. Man, I say, 
stands alone in the History of the Earth and animated Nature, 
co-ordinated by specific endowments with the materiality 
of this planet, apart, entirely, from every other organic being ; 
no vertebrate type equals him, either morphologically or teleo- 
logically. The specific character, as well as specific structure, 
p i} siological economy, and final purpose of an animal, however 
much resembling Man, either in mind or body, external or 
internal conformation, are, in my opinion, conditioned funda- 
mentally in its exclusively immutable psychical principle, in 
