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think, or the same logic will force into our reasonings the introduction of an unseen, spiritual world. Therefore men of the higher rational order cannot deny what they see, and so urge as the only means of progress in intelligence the acknowledgment of the reality of the unseen world.

There is no reason that can be urged against the fact that the impact of the activity of the Spirit of God, in which there are infinite potencies, gives the sense of spiritual beauty, the inspiration of divine grandeur, the perception of moral law, the sense of purity, love, righteousness, holiness, divinity; and produces in the soul the aspiration to know God and to come more fully into His image and likeness. Certainly the same logic is used to explain how the body comes into correspondence with nature, and it equally shows how the soul comes into correspondence with the powers of the unseen world.