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 that there are still more numerous and complex activities, still more potencies in the Human Spirit that flows into the universe from God! How conceivable it is that His Spirit, bathing the soul of man and the spiritual world like sunshine, should produce in man by its inherent forms of activity all the essentials that distinguish man from brute! The introduction of the factor of the spiritual world, in adjustment to which the spiritual faculties of man are formed and developed, certainly solves the problem in a conceivable way. Nor does it stand on this basis alone, for it solves the problem in a rational way, and also it is confirmed by the analogy of all that we know.

Even Materialists acknowledge a realm of invisible, material substance, called ether, as absolutely essential to the explanation of the simplest phenomenon of nature. One of two things must occur: either men must refuse to