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 pendeatof tbebodilyor^aniem. Thelatteris adireot emanation from the uDiversal sctive intellect (this ia bia interpretation of the »ui ToiirruEit of Aristoteleon

intelligence of God. The knowledge of God is, them- fore, the Icnowledge which, so to speak, develops in us the immaterial intelligence, and tnus confers on man an immaterial or spiritual nature. This immateriality not only confers on tin soul that perfection in which human happiness consists, but also endows the soul with immortahty. He who has attained a knowledge of God has reached a condition of existence which ren- ders him immune fr<Hn all the accidents of fortune, from all the allurements <rf sin, and even from death itself. Man, therefore, since he has it in his power to attain this salutary knowledge, ia in a position not only to work out liis own salvation, but also to wo^ out his own immortality. The resemblance between this doctrine and Spinofa's doctrine of immortality is so striking as to warrant the hypothesis that there is a casual dependence of the later on the earlier doctrine. The difference between the two Jewish thinkers is, however, as remarkable as the resemblance. While Spinoza teaches that the way to attain the knowledge which confers immortality is the proKress from sense- knowledge through scientific knowledge to philosophi- cal intuition of all things sub apede aUmUatia, Hosm holds that the road to perfection and immortality ia thepathoFduty as described in the I^awoF God.

Among the theological questions which Moses dis- cussed were the nature of prophecy and the reconciU-

ligence beine one in the series of intelligences emana- ting from God, the prophet must, by studr and m, lift himself up to the degree of perfec

that perfection is reached, there is required the free i of God before the man actually becomes the prophet. In his solution of the problem of evil, ha follows the neo-Platonista in laying stress on matter as the source of all evil and imperfection.

(Bnalau, 18Ul)i Beer. LAn u. Wnkm du Maintmuia (Profiue, 1B50): GEiaEK, tfoaet ben ilaimim CBnxIsu, ISSOI; Barccs. run loXurra on Mairmmida (Loadoa, 1S4T): JtmiA Encydoprdia, t. v. Mont Bm Maimm: Gutthahh, Dii Scho- Iait3c in ihrCT Ba. cum Jiidattum (Bnalau. 1902); ai^ccL, Qach, dtr Plia. in MiUela!Urt,n (Muui, 1805), 265 iiqq.; TuHMen, HiMary aj PhiUjiojiliii CBortonj 1903), 316 ff.

the Harafl6n below the junction of the Santiago, es- tablished by themselves and their successors from ^e Quito province, a series of missions extending down the river on both sides. In 1682 Rodriguez enumer- ates three missions of the Maina proper, in proximity to Borja, and one each of the Chayavita Coronados, Faranapura, and Roamaina, besides others in the sur- rounding tribes. In 1798 Hervas names San Ignacio, San Juan, Concepti6n, PreBentaci6n, and presumably San Borja, as missions occupied by Maina tribes. Mi the missions were then far on the decline, which he ascribes chiefly to the repeated inroads of the Brasil- ian slave hunters (see Mameluco). The mission p- ulation is now either extinct or assimilated with the general civilized population, but a few untamed bands Btill roam the forests.

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ing alongthe north bank of the Maiw^6a. Their earlier habitat is supposed to have been on the upper waters of the Morona and Pastaza, Ecuador. Brintm gives them six tribes, or dialects, viz.: Cahuapana, C^pa, Chayavita, Coronado, Uumurano, Haina, Roamaina. Hervas gives them two languages in six dialects, via.: Maina (Chapo, Coronado, Humurano, Roamaino dia- lects) and Chayavita (Cahuapano and Parsnapuro dia- lects). The Maina are notable as having been the first tribM of the upper Amazon region to be evangelized, so that they gave their name to thewhole nussion jurisaio- tion of the region and to the later province of Mainas, which included the larger part (rf tJie present Ecuador and northern Peru, east oi the main Cordillera, includ- ing the basins (£ the Huallaga and ITca^iti. In this missionary province of Mainas, according to Hervas, there laboured from 1638 to the expulsion in 1767, 167 Jesuit missionaries of Quito, who founded 152 mift- sioas, and eight of whom won the palm ot mar^rdom. The work was begun in 1638 by the Jesuit Patl^ts Gaspar de Cuxia and Lucas de la Cueva, from Quito, who, beginning their labour at the new town cJ S&a Francisco de Borja (now Borja) on the north bulk of

Halna. — Maine is commonly known as the Pine Tree State, but is sometimes called the Star in the East

GBOORAPiir. — It lies between 43° 6' and 47° 27' N. lat., and 66° Se* and 71° 6' W, long., bounded on the north by the Provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick; on the east by New Brunswick ; on the south-east and south by the At- lantic Ocean; on the west by the State of New Hampshire and ^ the Province of Quebec. It has an area of 3 3,0 4 square miles, in- cluding some 3000 square miles of water. The coast

of Maine has nu- ^_^^_— --

merous indenta- ^"^^^^^^

tions; withacoast- Seal or Mime

line of 218 miles^

when measured direct, it has a sea-coast of 2500 miles. As a result, it has beautiful bays such as Penobecot and Pasamaquoddy; a number of fine harbours, Port- land harbour on Cosco Bay being one of the best on the Atlantic. The islands oS the coast of Maine are very numerous. In Penobscot Bay alone there an some five hundred. The principal nvers of Maine are the Saco, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Penobscot, and St, Croii, which flow south, and the St. John, flowing at first northerly and gradually turning and flowing m a south-easterly direction through New Brunswick into the Bay of Fundy. These rivers and their tributariei. which are in general rapid streams, afford many great and valuable souroea of water-power, estimated to represent some 3,000.000 available horse-power. By the Treaty d Washington, also called the Ashburtcu Treaty, nmde in 1 842 to end the dispute relative to the

S roper location of the nortik-eastem frontier, the St. □hn River was constituted the northern boundary of Haino for a distance of 72 miles, and the St. Croix for a distance of 100 miles or more. Unfortunately, it failed in part at least to accomplish its purpose, for at the present time (1910) a Jomt International Com- mission is endeavouring to harmonize the differences concerning the use of the river which have arisen, and are liable to arise in the future between citizens of Maine on the northern border and British subjects living on the lower St. John.

The number of lakes in Maine is about 1580. Tba largest and most celebrated is Mooeehead Lake near the centre of the state, drained by the Kermebeo,

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