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 to reason that such a being could be created and brought to this state of life, and yet there be no reality in it. Moral intuition dictates that the human form could not be so perfected and endowed with sublime aspirations simply for disappointment. Since science holds that every animal organ, sense, and faculty, are developed through their relations to something, is it possible for the distinctively human senses and faculties to be developed if they are in relation to nothing? Is it not a violation of every principle of scientific reasoning to assume that human aspirations are developed in relation to non-realities, or to nothing? We may conclude with logic as sound and certain as is used in any scientific deduction, that every sense, faculty, and hope of the human soul has an objective reality in relation to which it is developed as surely as the wing argues an atmosphere, or the eye an ether.