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 shall have grown hoary with age—still there must come a time when man will overtake Deity; and then there can no longer be a God!" Specious this, very! Why? Because God, though not a progressive Being, as we understand it, yet is infinite; and man must ever be finite. God's omniscience is what the word proclaims it—all-knowing; but man shall be much-knowing. He is forced to approach Perfection in straight lines, and when he shall have attained immense power in any given direction, there will still be forever germinating new faculties, before the untold millions of which there shall ever be an infinite stretch, a limitless field, an endless road. God also is kaleidescopic; and, supposing it were possible for man to reach the point of greatness at which Deity is to-day, yet one exertion of His volition—and, lo! He presents a new aspect to the wondering souls of infinitude, more marvelous than before, and reveals points which will place a new infinity between man and their attainability; and so on for all the epochs yet to be—epochs whereof eternities, as we understand them, shall only count as moments in the everlasting year. Death is but an awakening, and there are to be myriads of these. All this I knew and felt; all these mighty foreshadowings flowed into my soul, as, with clarified intellect, and spirit bowed down with awe, I stood gazing at the man within the chamber. More: Reason, the king-faculty given us here, was only intended to act as our pilot through life, and will have fulfilled its main office when we step into the grave; but very soon after we step out of it, on the other side, the begins to take place, and the —whose elements are the senses—comes into play—the all-absorbing