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 scientific plane is higher than the sensual plane.

Science appeals to the senses of the body. Its facts are gathered by the physical senses and are put together by the lowest order of reasoning. The sensual mind can draw accurate conclusions on the natural plane, but not a single conclusion can the sensual mind form in regard to causes on a plane higher than that material plane on which the senses operate. If we had no other faculties than those of the senses and sensual reasoning, human development must have stopped with science. But such has not been the case because the corporeal senses and the natural-rational are but the lowest agencies of the mind. They are to the internal mind what the hands and feet are to the body.

Revelation is not addressed to the corporeal senses, but to perception and judgment. It appeals to the human,