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Rh existence in the various forms of embryology, and accompany their descriptions with important observations,

which should awaken thought to a higher and purer contemplation of man's origin. This clearer consciousness must precede an understanding of the harmony of being. Mortal thought must obtain a better basis, get nearer the truth of being, or health will never be universal, and harmony will never become the standard of man.

One of our ablest naturalists has said: “We have no right to assume that individuals have grown or been formed under circumstances which made material conditions essential to their maintenance and reproduction, or important to their origin and first introduction.” Why, then, is the naturalist's basis so materialistic, and why are his deductions generally material?

Adam was created before Eve. In this instance, it is seen that the maternal egg never brought forth Adam,

Eve was formed from Adam's rib, not from a foetal ovum. Whatever theory may be adopted by general mortal thought to account for human origin, that theory is sure to become the signal for the appearance of its method in finite forms and operations. If consentaneous human belief agrees upon an ovum as the point of emergence for the human race, this potent belief will immediately supersede the more ancient superstition about the creation from dust or from the rib of our primeval father.

You may say that mortals are formed before they

think or know aught of their origin, and you may also ask how belief can affect a result which precedes the development of that belief. It can