JNIany  of  the  brightest  medical  luminaries  of  the  present
day,  are  confident  in. the  belief  of  their  ability  for  analyzing
man  into  demonstration,  with  as  much  facility,  as  they  can
demonstrate  the  laws  governing  the  present  material  uni-
verse. But  no: — the  material  universe  runs  sooner  or  later
to  destruction ; — but  the  duration  of  man  is  made  everlast-
ing, by  the  ordination  of  his  God,  through  the  unceasing
instrumentality  of  his  nervous  system ; — through  the  medium
of  which,  he  was  primarily  created  by  Deity,  and  endowed
thereby  with  the  power  of  reproducing  and  continuing  his
species  here  in  time,  and  exalting  himself  to  eternity  of
existence.  Let  us  therefore  duly  recognize  and  appreciate
the  nobility  of  our  organization,  and  improve  and  perfect
ourselves  in  our  present  state  of  being,  that  We  may  reach
and  enjoy  the  endless  nobilities  and  felicities  of  the  ethereal
creations,  which  are  to  arise  from  the  ashes  of  the  present
creations,  and  to  be  endowed  with  stimuli  for  everlasting
revolution.  Let  us  then,  study  the  modus  operandi  of  our
noble  and  glorious  nervous  organization: — for  although  it
may  not  be  analyzable  into  positively  mathematical  demon-
stration, yet  we  shall  be  enabled  by  appropriate  investiga-
tions, to  make  such  near  approach  to  certainty,  through  the
inductive  process  of  ratiocination,  as  will  elicit  tiie  eduction
of  much  more  satisfactory  knowledge  of  ourselves,  than  we
have  as  yet  attained.  Let  us  study  it,  as  originating  and
maintaining  all  our  corporeal  and  intellectual  phenomena,
and  we  shall  reach  much  nearer  perfection  than  we  now  are,


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and  learn  to  limit  our  aspirations  after  more,  within  appro-
priately philosophical  boundaries,  and  console  ourselves  with
the  comfortable  reflection,  that  when  we  shall  have  shuffled
off  our  more  grossly  material  mortal  coil,  we  shall  be  trans-
lated to  the  immortal  ethereal  creations  of  endless  blessed-
ness, and  have  clearly  unfolded  to  our  view,  all  the  myste-
ries of  all  the  creations.
