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172 or evil, which he has through the bodily senses, constitutes his happiness or misery.

Theorizing about man's development from mushrooms

to monkeys and from monkeys into men amounts to nothing in the right direction and very much in the wrong.

Materialism grades the human species as rising from matter upward. How then is the material species maintained, if man passes through what we call death and death is the Rubicon of spirituality? Spirit can form no real link in this supposed chain of material being. But divine Science reveals the eternal chain of existence as uninterrupted and wholly spiritual; yet this can be realized only as the false sense of being disappears.

If man was first a material being, he must have passed through all the forms of matter in order to become man.

If the material body is man, he is a portion of matter, or dust. On the contrary, man is the image and likeness of Spirit; and the belief that there is Soul in sense or Life in matter obtains in mortals, alias mortal mind, to which the apostle refers when he says that we must “put off the old man.”

What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the material structure? If the real man is in the material

body, you take away a portion of the man when you amputate a limb; the surgeon destroys manhood, and worms annihilate it. But the loss of a limb or injury to a tissue is sometimes the quickener of manliness; and the unfortunate cripple may present more nobility than the statuesque athlete, — teaching us by his very deprivations, that “a man's a man, for a' that.”

When we admit that matter (heart, blood, brain, acting