teach the rising generation to apply the right of suffrage to the highest and holiest purposes; obtain the enfranchisement of the slave; secure the fraternization of all Europe; the analysis of all religions; the elevation of the heathen into harmonious nationalities; unlimited commerce; and the establishment of the Spiritual Church of Humanity.

It is something to us, my friends, that this hemisphere -our country—is already the battle-field of Truth and Error. The problems of the world are to be tested here, on American soil. Every theory of human improvement is to be thrown into the retort of absolute experiment, and tried thoroughly. The most utopian and diabolical-the celestial and terrestrial-are to have their acts on the stage. And thus the era of Plato"the Spiritual Age"-will gradually steal into the world, when the divinity, and value, and natural connections of all things-of Music and Poetry-of Industry and Art-of Science, Phenomena, Philosophy, Theology and Life,-ARE TO BE UNBOSOMED AND REVEALED! Old Theology is to disgorge its errors; new Theology its mighty truths. In America we see the 66 · Hope" of the World; the "only son" of the Nations, out of whose Constitution will yet be born a new Social, Political, and Religious United States. Philosophy,

at once the Incarnation of divine love and divine wis

dom, in its mighty sweep, mapping out the whole nature, duty and destiny of Man, is even now the morning Star, the thrice-glorious herald of the COMING DAY.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRODUCING AND CONTROL

LING THE FALL OF RAIN.

THAT the true Harmonial man is destined to apply the greater portion of mundane laws to the elevation and happiness of the race-that he will advance, by means of experiment and mental progression, to a standpoint, from which the common physical processes of Nature will promptly subserve his beneficent purposes-is demonstrated by what he has already accomplished in the world of material sciences. Matter is the foundation of Mind. Mind is the spiritualization of Matter. The superior portion of any organism is invariably positive to the dependent parts and functions, which are, therefore, negative, and consequently, controllable by the superior power. The human Mind, like a flower, was unfolded gradually out of the universal Tree of LifeI mean, out of the eternal constitution of the infinite Whole. It is marching forward and upward, attaining more and more unto sovereignty of influence, and becoming daily the most startling and incomprehensible

wonder of the world—the mystery which only superior Intelligences can ever hope to fathom.

What I have recently discovered in respect to man's future doings amid the elements that are now playing wildly among the clouds, the mountains and lofty peaks, yet untamed and undisciplined, will be found set forth in the following four letters, addressed originally to the Editor of the Hartford Times.

SUBJECT STATED.-FIRST LETTER.

About eighteen months ago, I wrote and delivered a discourse on "The human mind considered as a motive power!"--treating of the past and prospective achievements of human Intelligence in the domain of the physical world; and was then impressed, without understanding the full import of the statement, or the remotest possibility of its ultimate realization by man, to employ the following apparently extravagant language:

"The mission of Mind, as a motive power, is to subdue and adorn the Soil; exterminate all unwholesome developments in the vegetable and animal worlds; and to transform extensive plains, now non-productive and useless, into gardens of health and comfort. By the magic of MIND, rough places will be made smooth, the crooked straight, the wilderness to blossom as the rose; and the cold, damp, pestilential winds which now sweep

over the earth-spreading consumption and negative diseases in every direction-will ultimately be changed into a healing influence, calm as the evening zephyr breathing over the gardenized fields and vineyards of the land, fraught with sweet perfumes. Man

will yet learn how to create and preserve an equilibrium between earth and atmosphere. The hot deserts of Arabia, now mere seas of sand and desolation, will yet appear, under the well-directed mechanical treatment and scientific skill of man, as beautiful, productive, and habitable as the undulating valleys of Italy. He will be enabled to instigate, control, and direct the fall of rain over such portions of land as need moisture-elevating, thus, much parsimonious soil to the height of richness and abundance, and to the bringing forth of pure productions. He will spread civilization over the dominion of the heathen. He will convert the darkest forests into gardens of beauty; the disagreeable vegetables and animal forms, which now disfigure the face of nature, will be overcome and banished; and the lion and the lamb will lie down together in peace. The lightning that now performs the duties of a courier, and which sometimes still ventures to go off on private excursions, declaring itself at times independent of man's pursuit and power, will yet be the means, the chief agent (under man's direction), of conducting away from