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 that the car we daily ride in should, through the mechanism of the vehicle, receive from a copper wire the substance that furnishes the power to rotate its wheels, the light to light it, and the heat to warm it. Power, light, and heat are all unfolded out of the substance of ether through the diverse organs of the car, namely, the motor, the incandescent burner, and the radiator. Each mechanism of the car receives power from the current of electricity, as endeavor, and each expends the endeavor according to its form. It is the same with the higher and more potent life-current of affection from the Creator, which is received into the soul and similarly manifested in diverse character through the more highly constituted organs of the body.

Having traced the origin of the powers and faculties of the body to the affections of the mind, it now remains to account for the origin of the affections and faculties of the mind or soul.

To have a common starting place in thought, let the soul mean all that organism within the body that is made of substance superior to the natural world. In the material body there is a mind-organism of brain and nerves, and in the brain and nerves there is the most pure material