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 seal of modern science; but there is a general feeling that materialistic and sensuous science, once so replete with promise, and with which we have been satiated to the full, is not able to formulate an intelligent or a helpful philosophy.

In following materialistic reasoning we are brought to a line that, we are told, we can not pass over. Beyond it is the everlasting unknown, and no further advance in that direction is possible. This is a proof not of inability to advance to a knowledge of higher causes, but of the error and inadequacy of the system of reasoning that has been followed. With a true system of philosophy we can advance in height to a knowledge of the Creator, and progress laterally without limit. The further we proceed with a false philosophy, the less progress appears possible, and the more uncertain is each step; but the more progress made by a true philosophy, the greater is the possibility of further advance, and the more certain is the knowledge acquired.