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 That there is a substantial, spiritual world in relation to which the faculties of the human soul are developed, is not too great a thing to conceive nor too remote to be urged as an esssential basis of philosophical reasoning. Considering the wisdom and power of the Creating Agency displayed in the universe, can we conceive of its final failure through attempting that which is too much for it? Man may lay a foundation upon which he is unable to build, but we cannot conceive of the Supreme Architect making false calculations, and Himself ridiculous in the understanding of His own creatures, through inability to complete the structure upon the foundation which He has laid.

It was once a grievous question what we should do for oil when the sperm whale becomes extinguished. Coal oil was found. Yet mankind took up the same childish dirge, What shall we do