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474 pure and holy, the immutable and immortal — can originate the impure and mortal, and dwell in it. How can Spirit produce matter? As Science repudiates self-evident impossibilities, the material senses must father them; for both the senses and their reports are unnatural, impossible, and unreal.

Either Mind produces, or it is produced. If Mind is first, it cannot produce its opposite, matter. If matter is first, it cannot produce Mind. Like produces like. In natural history the bird is not the product of a beast. In spiritual history matter is not the progenitor of Mind.

Professor Agassiz argues that mortals spring from eggs and races. Mr. Darwin admits this; but he adds that mankind has ascended through all the lower grades of being. Evolution describes the gradations of human belief; but it does not acknowledge the method of Mind, or see that material methods arc impossible in Divine Science, and that all Science is of God, not of man.

Agassiz asks, “What can there be, of a material nature, transmitted through these bodies called eggs, — themselves composed of the simplest material elements, by which all peculiarities of ancestry, belonging to either sex, are brought down from generation to generation?”

The question of the naturalist is, How can matter originate or transmit Mind? I answer that it cannot. Darkness and doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on materiality. From a material stand-point, “Who, by searching, can find out God?” All must be Mind, or else all must be matter. Neither could produce the other. Mind is immortal, but the material seed must decay in order to propagate its species; and the resulting germ is doomed to the same routine.