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22 with the body was necessarily occult, but when it was actually seen as the man himself, with all his looks, members and garments about him, the matter took a practical form." "We may illustrate this by man and his ostensible connections with this world. Now we see man, and the manner in which he lays hold upon his objects, which is clearly typified by his actual handling of certain things. But suppose for a moment that we were some other being, and that man was invisible to us, and that still the objects were moved from place to place with an apparent design. In this case we should have a type of what the motions and actions of the body are to an abstract philosopher. It would be a kind of ghostly and fearful galvanism, and the existence of something to be called man, though what could never be known, would be the last induction of philosophy from the strange events which were taking place around. Place the seer, however, the person who can see this powerful and actual man who is creating them, and sight itself without a strained faculty, will account for the whole connection of events. We see them produced and we see the agent. Such is the native and substantial function