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 inevitable conclusion from the deepest scrutiny of the nature of matter and of nature's works. But were it an hypothesis, it would be adequately proved at every step as well as when the argument is seen in its continuity, and the universal creation is observed in its order and working unity. Neither matter nor an organization of matter can love and think, nor can formless substance be self-conscious; but spiritual substance organized into the human form, being in Correspondence with the Divine Form, which is a Divine Human, can constitute a loving, thinking, selfconscious being.

The human body in its structure and operation is a complete illustration of the philosophy of creation and of its perpetual sustenance. This is because man is a little universe after the pattern of the greater, and is the image and likeness of the Creator. This has always been acknowledged in regarding man a microcosm, yet in modern times with little or no understanding of the vast and infinite things involved in calling man a little universe. It is because man is a microcosm, a complete world in miniature, that the human form, when it is understood, presents