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 can be formed from such a standpoint. The assumption is so intangible to thought that no language is adequate for its expression, hence there is a resort to a nomenclature which diametrically contradicts the assumption. They speak of the "amount" of electricity, "collecting" electricity, "charged" with electricity, the "motion" of electricity, "storing" electricity, and the like. Yet every one knows that if electricity is simply a condition of matter there can be no such thing as "amount" of condition, "collecting" condition, "charged" with condition, "motion" of condition, or "storing" condition. Yet these terms would be proper if electricity were regarded as a substance, or a force proper to a distinct substance. The implied contradiction arises from thinking properly when following the light of intelligence that flows into the eye of the mind, that electricity is really something; but when thought is led by the eye of the body, because the higher substances can not be seen, their existence is denied. Thus the sight of the material eye contradicts the sight of the mind. When the light of the material eye is followed to the exclusion of the light of the mind, which is intelligence, materialism ensues, and culminates in "total ignorance," which is total mental darkness; for the eye of the body does not receive the