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                     The youngest lawyer, fresh from law school knows more about the
                       most intricate cases, in his own estimation, than the judges upon the Supreme Court bench
                       who spend long hours, weeks and months, seriously deliberating over their decisions. But
                       those who, without having studied, think they understand and are fitted to discourse upon
                       the greatest of all sciences, the science of Life and Being, make a greater mistake. After
                       years of patient study, of holy life spent in close application, a man is oftentimes
                       perplexed at the immensity of the subject he studies. He finds it to be so vast in both the
                       direction of the great and small that it baffles description, that language fails, and that
                       the tongue must remain mute. Therefore we hold, (and we speak from knowledge gained through
                       years of close study and investigation), that the finer distinctions which we have made, and
                       shall make, are not at all arbitrary, but absolutely necessary as are divisions and
                       distinctions made in anatomy or chemistry. 
                    No form in the physical world has feeling in the true sense of
                       that word. It is the indwelling life which feels, as we may readily see from the fact that a
                       body which responded[pg 061]to the slightest touch while instinct with life, exhibits no sensation
                       whatever even when cut to pieces after the life has fled. Demonstrations have been made by
                       scientists, particularly by Professor Bose of Calcutta, to show that there is feeling in
                       dead animal tissue and even in tin and other metal, but we maintain that the diagrams which
                       seem to support his contentions in reality demonstrate only a response to impacts similar to
                       the rebound of a rubber ball, and that must not be confused with such feelings as
                        love,hate, sympathy and aversion. Goethe also, in his
                        novel “Elective Affinities,” (Wahlverwandtschaft), brings
                        out some beautiful illustrations wherein he makes it seem as if atoms loved and hated, from
                        the fact that some elements combine readily while other substances refuse to amalgamate, a
                        phenomenon produced by the different rates of speed at which various elements vibrate and
                        an unequal inclination of their axes. Only where there is sentient life can there be
                        feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. 
                    The
                       Etheric Region. 
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