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require a material edium and infinite material po wer must require and infinite medium; therefore there could Dot be two such material infinite powers existing. But knowledge tueans the power of know wing sounething, and is not inaterial; therefore that idea of the impossibility of the existence of two infinite things is really speaking a false idea because the reasoning it self is fallacious. It is a reasoning in which there is no iniddle term, because the word infinite would be used in the major and minor pre. mises in two different senses. We have therefore to discuss the physical condition, mental, moral and spiritual conditions of the soul, and the laws which B:e to be derived for the purpose of advancing the life of the soul must be based on the facts which are experienced on all these planes, and must also be based on the true ideas of the relation of the human being with other beings. Although in a theoretical sense we may divide the planes of life into different divisions, the lowest kind being the monad, along all the other planes, the vegetable, animal, etc., till we come to tne highest plane, that of human life, which we also divide into different planes, still we know that our own life is related to all other life, and certainly we must observe the facts with regard to all this other life. Physical life we can know by actual observation, in other forins of life, or in the human body itself. How is it maintained ? Let us observe in the case of the tree. It lives by gathering to itself
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