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The truth about human nature, of life and destiny, of good and evil, of liberty and responsibility, will<br />

never be discovered on the point of a scalpel. Material science cannot judge the things of the spirit; the spirit<br />

alone can judge and comprehend the spirit in the measure of its own degree of evolution. It is by the<br />

consciousness of superior souls, by their thoughts, their works, their examples, by their sacrifices, that great<br />

light is cast on humanity to guide it toward a noble ideal. Man is at once spirit and matter - soul and body. But<br />

spirit and matter are but words, expressing in an imperfect manner the two forms of eternal life, which sleep in<br />

the matter of the brute, awaken in the matter organic, and grow and rise in the spirit. Is there not, as certain<br />

philosophers admit, but one only essence in things at once form and thought the form of the mind? That is<br />

possible: human knowledge is restricted, and the flashlight of genius is only one rapid ray in the infinite<br />

domain of ideas and laws. That which always characterizes the absolute difference of soul from matter is its<br />

unity with consciousness. Matter disperses and vanishes under analysis. Physical atoms divide and subdivide<br />

indefinitely. There is no unity in matter - such is the latest declaration of our greatest scientists. The spirit<br />

alone, in the universe, represents the one element simple, indivisible, indestructible, imperishable, immortal.<br />

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