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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
the tortuous by-paths of convenient unifications and purely wordy abstractions, may learn once for all that he can never succeed in turning the order of things as it is being observed in existence, but only in perverting his own mental vision to perceive what is straight as crooked.
A slight trimming of the wick of intellectualism will enable us to perceive, though we might continue to wear the coloured spectacles of prejudice, that even this pervasion which is secured for God by means of what might be termed the mind-befogging shells of reason predetermined to unreasoning bias, is not what we have been aspiring for all along, falling short, as it does, by far, of the aimed at pinnacle of absolute omni-presence, conceived to be---rightly or wrongly, it matters not howan essential element in the constitution of divinity. For the pervasion of consciousness is limited to conscious substance which is not inclusive of matter. The classification of substance in the following tabulated form will be useful as illustrating the point for the benefit of those not having expert familiarity with the science of mental abstractionism.
Substance.
Conscious substance Unconscious substance, (spirit).
i.e., matter, ether, etc. A glance here suffices to show that conscious substance is only a part of the genus substance, and, therefore, cannot be identified with it. Hence, even if it were possible by some method of intellectual jugglery to convert metaphysics into physics by treating a pure
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