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 here; but they are deathless; and as God has provided a supply for every proper demand in all things else, so He has in this instance; and therefore, though the aspiring soul may pass away with its strong wings drooping and weak for want of exercise, yet, up there—in its grand heaven—the air is pure and the field immense, the mountains tall, and the oceans wide; and the eagle soul shall essay its loftiest flight, and grow stronger from the trial. What a person acquires here is but a prophecy of harvests to be reaped in the great hereafter. Man is really a unitary being, but seemingly is duplex, and even multiple; but this is seeming only, for in fact there is but one real sense in man—which truth I learned as I gazed upon the student in the chamber; and that sense is intuition—the human sprout of an infinite and God-like faculty, dormant in most people, yet incontestibly destined to an immense unfolding in all; albeit, it is so deeply buried in some that it can only express itself through organs. "And God said, Let us make man in our own image;" and so He made him; but God is ubiquitous, omnipresent, omniscient—man is not; and yet, if Scripture be worthy of our regard, and Progress be not a sham and delusive dream, the tremendous prophecy implied in the line from Genesis just quoted is certainly to be realized; and man is destined to move, through thorny fields—and slowly, it may be yet still to move, towards ! Intuition is the sprout of which they are the full tree. True, man shall never reach absolute godhood yet ever will he move toward it. "If this be so," says the caviler, "and God be stationary, and not an advancing Being, there must come a time—even though when many a yet unborn eternity