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 a substantial, spiritual world, a form as real to the faculties of the soul as nature is to the senses of the body. The whole difficulty with the science of the day is that it refuses to acknowledge in its reasonings what is not discernible by the bodily senses, yet which reason clearly discerns. And as spirit must ever elude the senses of the body from its superiority to them, it must be introduced as a rational conclusion of scientific thought. In which case spiritual or mental phenomena are as readily explained as natural phenomena, and by analogous principles.

Materialism has never explained a primary cause. It is safe to say that the realm of interior causes can not be entered until science admits the rational deductions that every cause originates in a substance, that every force is the activity of a substance, and that all supernatural powers are from a substantial, spiritual world. Indeed, it may as