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ALEX. W. STEIN. 
Gentlemen, I would not be considered an image-breaker, who 
gives nothing in the place of what he destroys. It is so much 
easier to pull to pieces than to construct. I cannot oppose your 
judgment, if I would. When an argument is unreasonable, you 
set it aside ; but if it appeals to your judgment, you are forced to 
accept it, whether it is acceptable or not. Prejudiced though we 
may be to be told that man is but a civilized monkey, we are 
bound to admit that the globe itself is a sublime history of evo¬ 
lution ; and he who will read it as it is written, will be forced to 
the conclusion that mind existed before matter, and so the facts 
which I have laid before you to-day must rest. 
But let us always remember that knowledge is finite. We see 
but the reflexion of things at best, not the things themselves. 
Knowledge is within our grasp; it deals with matters tangible, 
but faith is infinite, and leads us into the boundless realms of the 
imagination. What is imagination ? You will not deny its ex¬ 
istence, though you cannot give the correlate for it in physical 
force. 
One thing we may take upon inference : that if neither mat¬ 
ter nor force can die, it would be a great anomaly in creation if 
the principle of conscious identity were capable of utter annihila¬ 
tion. Then— 
“ So live that when thy summons comes to join 
The innumerable caravan which moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.” 
New Appointment. —Dr. C. J. Alloway, formerly of Mon¬ 
treal but now of Grand Forks, Dak., lias been appointed Terri¬ 
torial Veterinarian under tlie law passed by the late Dakota 
Legislature. The appointment seems to meet with unanimous 
approval. 
