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apprehended and become as com-
m onplace as electricity, and we
shall use it, every one of us, for the
benefit of ourselves and th a t of hu-
m anity. .
But u ntil the common people
und erstan d it, they would better
leave it alone. I do not think I
would care to go into an establish-
,
,
. .
,
m ent where electricity is m anufac-
,
, , ,
,
tured and recklessly place my hand
on the dynam o. I would first pre­
fer to learn a little, about the laws
of electricity and the voltage of the
generator. Lacking th at knowledge,
I had better keep aw ay from it.
he shall behold the god th a t never
forsakes him , th e god of himself
and the universe— the only god he
ever shall know, for in him inhere
undream ed of possibilities, whose
e,l^s are divine and whose com pass
*s infinite.
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is now for the first time told to in ­
B EA T-TH E-W 1R LD P R IC ES!
dividual man by the Science of
Psychology, to Social Man, by the
In 3 o r 4
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ounce
silver-
Science of Sociology, and to both
in e cases :
arranted
“ T renton ” ,
by the Science of Morals. Now
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tural, Human and Rational
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Religion.
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m ore. All p rep aid ,
Man or M an m e a n s th e race, H u ­
L a d ies ’ G old W atches .—In gold-tilled
“ The im p o rtan t th in g ’’ in all our m anity.]
And th a t is a safe injunction in
life tu rn s out to be attention .
S trange as it may seem to us at
regard to hypnotism . Do not
And upon th a t im p o rtan t light is first, th at sim ple m ental act, fact Lra
These in
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laws and nature of its operation.
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m onstrous bugaboo conjured from
Send for price-lists of Ingersoll spoons,
gestion and H ypnotism , they give tage of woe!” A ttention is the E re
e th o u g h t badges, am i m y fam ous
the d epths of hell to produce death
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us concisely some of the most prac- rudder, and if we learn to steer tr a c t: “ Theism in th e C ru c ib le ” , free.
and destruction to all who tam p er
,
r
tical results of perhaps, the most even tolerably well, we shall find
wonderful of the Sciences, m odern life well worth living, and if we
O tto W e t t s t e in ,
Let us understand th a t nothing Psychology. The great uses of the steer tiret class, life becomes physi­
R o c h e lle , I I I .
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cally the most exquisitely delicious,
edge of which is dangerous. There A stronom y, the far-reaching cotre-
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Man is th e unconquerable m aster which M an could stand to receive were, only had a confused idea of
of nature; man will become the ul-1 hj8 Hnal explanation. As Sir Wil-
what they w anted, and th eir re­
he W iley B.
tim ate conqueror of th e universe; liam H am ilton used to keep say ­
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ligions (including the C h ristian )
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we?e the most m istakenly absurd
T h e O ld e st! th e
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209-211 F irs t S t .,
But now correlative Psychology
PO RTLAND, oREO
and analyzed with scientific pre- feeder, sustainer, executor and sub- says: J t has taken the Infinite
cision, as is the com m onest sub- stance of m ind, with all its aston- Universe infinite tim e to work out
stance of this earth . Let us under- ¡ghing powers of m em ory, reason the speck of protoplasm wherewith
lot
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break lU egga or make it* chicks looey.
gods, or God Suprem e, w ithin the the facts in this dom ain of Man ger, the feeling of need of som e­
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bosom' of N atu re’s m ysterious and m ind really were, it only be­
hatched.
THE
thing to absorb and assim ilate— so
forces, whom man him self—the came possible to know since A. D.
A INCUBATOR
as to keep going. Hence chemical b sbwlately perfect u to PETALUM
lncab.tore«entlal.— p r o p e r a p p li c a ­
only redoubtable god in the u n i­ 1600; and only has it g radually be­
io n a n d a l . t r l b u t t o n o f h e a t a n d r a o l . t u r —, r e g u ­
affinity produced tttra c tiv e longing t l FREIOHT
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of m ystery th a t su rro u n d s them .
1800, put forth the “ U r-schleim ” or ing— the sense of repetition, again-
Then shall we be able to apply Protoplasm , as the only life exhib- ness, expectancy, awarness ; the bi -
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“ S ecular S cience asd
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