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 life that animates them, which we designate as human, and which is manifested in intelligence, the aspiration for eternal life, the worship of God, and the desire to know and to fulfil His laws.

Spiritual things are as surely the objects of spiritual desires as material things are the objects of the senses. The wing of a bird is proof of an atmosphere; the fin of the fish is evidence of the sea. The ear is a proof of sound, the eye of light, the olfactory nerves of odors, the hand of objects external to it. We do not find in nature such a contradiction as a wing and no atmosphere, lungs and no air. It does not exist in the imagination of man to conceive, or in the power of God to create that which has no relation to anything. Everything is in correspondence with something. Likewise every desire of the human heart must have not only a real object, but a possible one. It is impossible for it to be