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 from the fact that God manifested Himself in the flesh, assumed, purified and glorified a human body, and ascended to heaven with it where He reigns for ever in it.

"Does this look", he continues, "like the abolition of materialism after the present system of it is destroyed? Or does it not rather prove, that, transplanted into another system, it will be preferred to celestial honors, and prolonged in immortality throughout all ages?"

Had he understood how material and substantial things exist simultaneously in discrete degrees or planes of being, and undergo corresponding evolutions for ever, he would have escaped all this blundering in the dark, this confused and vague speculation, this annihilation of the physical world and this impossible transfusion of matter into spirit!

"Though a paradise of sense," he says in professional qualification of his statements, "it will not be a paradise of sensuality. Though not so unlike the present world as many apprehend, there will be one point of total dissimilarity betwixt them. It is not the entire substitution of spirit for matter that will distinguish the future economy from the present. But it will be the entire substitution of