tably so. The essence of our being is a breath of Heaven. This body, this life of ours, these faculties, are they not all a vesture for that Unnamed ? We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. We are the miracle of miracles. This is scientific fact. God's creation-it is the Almighty God's. Atheistic science babbles poorly of it with scientific nomenclatures, experiments, and whatnot, as if it were a poor dead thing to be bottled up in Leyden jars, and sold over counters; but the natural sense of man in all times, if he will honestly apply his sense, proclaims it to be a living thing. Ah! an unspeakable, God-like thing, toward which the best attitude for us, after never so much science, is awe, devout prostration, and humility of soul; worship, if not in words, then in silence" (CARLYLE, Hero Worship).

Who in Boston has a right to look loftily on Carlyle? Macaulay said, but let me only whisper the fact, that he did not see how Prescott, being what he was, could live in such a place as Boston. Who in any American editor's chair, or in any college in New England, is authorized to look condescendingly upon Carlyle, even on this theme, although, forsooth, he is not a microscopist? [Applause.]

XI.

AUTOMATIC AND INFLUENTIAL NERVES.

THE FIFTY-SIXTH LECTURE IN THE BOSTON MONDAY LECTURESHIP, DELIVERED IN TREMONT

TEMPLE DEC. 11.

"IT is certain that matter is somehow directed, controlled, and arranged, while no material forces or properties are known to be capable of discharging such functions. . . I believe that it will be found, that the institution of the series of preparatory changes which occur previous to the development of the lasting form and structure of tissues can only be accounted for upon the supposition of the existence of a power capable of foreseeing what was about to happen, and of determining beforehand the arrangement that would be most advantageous to the living being, and able to provide beforehand for requirements that it was foreseen would arise at a future time.". LIONEL BEALE, Protoplasm, pp. 306, 358.

"THE laws of nature do not account for their own origin.". JOHN STUART MILL, Logic.