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 the flower, the fruit, and the seed with ability to produce its kind; nor can they explain the gathering of matter into a system of bones, muscles, veins, arteries, nerves, and brains. Much less can they explain the animal instinct, a power preeminently transcending any force inherent in matter. It is hardly necessary to go so far as to suggest that difference which exists between the forces belonging to matter and the affections and thought of the human mind, for which the properties of matter in no degree account. There is no other conclusion possible within the bounds of philosophical reasoning than that there is a realm of forces distinctly superior to the material universe. There are forces that form the vegetable kingdom, and preserve its uses; forces that form the animal body, and endow it with instinct; forces that form the human, and gift man with wisdom and love. Since these forces transcend the capacities of matter, and as there is no force without a substance from which it comes, it is certain that there is a realm of substances superior to those of nature, and that they come down into nature, and produce effects there. Call that realm of substances and forces what one may desire, cause-world, supernatural world, mind-world; but no new name is necessary. It is, as distinguished from the natural world, rightly