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48 facility of equilibrium, or of being able to balance the body without effort. All the possibilities of physical power exist in the infant. All the muscles, nerves, tendons, or whatever may be necessary, are there, only they are undeveloped as yet. They need but to be unfolded and strengthened in order to the full attainment and possession of all their great possibilities and uses. And just so it is with the mental or intellectual faculties. The imitative, comparing and reasoning powers, as yet only in embryo in the child, come forth by gradual unfoldings to their fullest fruitions. And they develop in infinite variety according to the differing forms of education with different individuals, or in harmony with their varying kinds of genius. In one the mechanical faculties become prominent; in another the mathematical; in others the mercantile, the artistic, the political, the musical, the poetical, the linguistic, and so on in endless variety. They all exist at birth in different degrees of possibility, according to the peculiar genius of the individual; they only need opening and developing.

These, however, are of the natural mind. But there exists a still higher range of faculties the spiritual. They are, as we might say, distinctly above the others, as those are above the merely physical. The natural mind may develop without limit on the range of its purely natural faculties.