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 history, tradition and astronomical calculation, has been operating for 5000 years, with a ratio of improvement equal to its experience in knowledge, and yet has been so confined by the narrow boundaries of the animal and physical world, that the existence of an intellectual world has never suggested itself even to the imagination—what an inexplicable problem! Through the same long epoch, the whole power of the mind is employed to preserve existence by means that renders it miserable.—What a grievous and Melancholy reflection!

How shall we attempt the solution of this problem—how offer consolation to afflicted thought?