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66 error, and requires the sensible to be made manifest through the insensible.

What is termed matter manifests nothing but a material mentality. Not a glimpse or manifestation of Spirit is obtainable through matter. Spirit is positive. Matter is its supposed opposite, the absence of Spirit. For positive Spirit to pass through a negative condition would be its destruction.

Anatomy declares man to be structural. Physiology continues this explanation, measuring human strength

by bones and sinews, and human life by material law. Man is spiritual, individual, and eternal; material structure is mortal.

Phrenology makes man knavish or honest, according

to the development of the cranium; but anatomy, physiology, phrenology, do not define the image of God, the real immortal man.

Human reason and religion come slowly to the

recognition of spiritual facts, and so continue to call upon matter to remove the error which the human mind alone has created.

The idols of civilization are far more fatal to health and longevity than the idols of barbarism. They call into action less faith than Buddhism, in a supreme governing Intelligence. The Esquimaux restore health by incantations, as effectually as civilized practitioners by their more studied methods.

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? Nothing is able to do so much for man as he can do for himself, with omnipotent aid.