God, then is God Pantheon, and the fancy of the intellect can find amusement in a cheaper form than science can afford; in passing my faculties of perception and reason through the latent energies of the mental laboratory, for the last seventeen years, forcing it to disclose its constructive resources, modus operandi, and propagandi, it has cost much intense mental application of the faculties in counsel.

However, for science to force the intellectual functionsofthe thinking substance from racy and tracy reading into the unexplored regions of profound thought, would be considered unfashionable in this age of assuming graces, and therefore science will commence angular expansion in order to change the scenery of the counseling faculties; and, in the mean time, if you discover a mirror reflecting the outlines of your own mental organism, its origin, its progress, its symbolic magazine, its classification in this world and in the world to come; and last, not least, its functional process of manufacturing thoughts, symbolizing the imagery of your own intellect, I beseech you not to be

offended; because science does not belong to personalities, but is claimed by principles; and you are, in like manner, claimed by an eternal principle, which can not recognize your intellectual errors and follies committed against principle; and, for this significant reason, I advise you, a second time, be not offended at the angular outlines of your own daguerreotype; and, in case your own picture does not suit your intellectual expectations, then remodel and dress up the mental magazine, and call again on the photographist to copy a more consistent picture upon the same plate; and, in order to change the scenery of the intellectual dominion, science will cut a few flourishes among the counseling faculties, which keeps them all in play, some to heap, and some to throw away; and, by retrospection, it is evident that the enormous accumulations of expiring inertia, which are the sacred relics of intellectual imagery of Oriental nations, which science classifies into a heterogeneous mass, but recognizes as the mental data which the counseling faculties have heaped, as well as thrown away, connected

with many men and many minds, which, when taken as a whole, constitutes the most extraordinary collection of materials that has ever been submitted to the analytical and synthetical art of science; and, moreover, a strict analysis of this intellectual furniture is called for and demanded by this age of utilitarianism, so eminently successful in all the useful arts and sciences; for it has been by the observation and notation of facts, and after the lapse of time, the accumula thus produced being submitted to a strict analysis, by generalizing, systematizing, and simplifying, that the arts and sciences have arrived at their passing state of maturity.

The two first sciences cultivated among men were those of astronomy and magic; and, from that time to the passing hour, mental manifestations have ever been a popular theme among nations, and handed down to us by tradition and notation, until we are overwhelmed with speculative theories and theological disputations, the ultimatum of which is a patrimonial legacy, forced upon our credulous and confiding faculties, and but

poorly calculated to aid our powers of perception and reason in defining the conventional axioms of the intellectual sciences, connected with many men and many minds, which are the productions of a few simple principles in actual operation. If we expect to make useful and systematic progress in mental philosophy, we must submit the terresti-mental organism, with its laws and constructive machinery, to the analytical and synthetical modes of investigating mental manifestations; any other routine of investigation will terminate in, what is already established in the Old and New Testaments-one, the philosophy of arbitrary diction; and the other, the mystical philosophy of the powers, resources, and modus operandi of the human mind, as taught in parabolical language.

Every science is based upon conventional hypotheses; or, in other words, upon conjectures, agreed upon by common consent. By way of illustration, take the champion mathematics, and one of the conventional axioms, symbolized as follows:-Things that are equal to the same

thing, are equal to cach other; this is evidently a conventional truth, but positively defies the capacity of the faculties to demonstrate it. Now equalize six globules of water, and place one of the equilaterals under a microscope, and show us how many atoms of matter it would take to make one of those beautiful animalculæ living in the water; and how many animalculæ will it take to make one sufficiently large to be seen with the naked eye; but, if one disappear, then the globule would be minus an animalcule, and, therefore, unequal; yet the absence of this animalcule does not alter the conventionality of "things that are equal to the same thing, are equal to each other."

Miss Gracia Sciencia is curious to know, and asks the question in all simplicity and sincerity, Did Christ perform his superhuman miracles by controverting the laws of nature, or did he cooperate with the laws of nature? If he coöperated in harmony with the laws of nature, it follows that theology and mental manifestations are nearly identical, and both can be reduced to