. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. a purpose. Reason teaches that theSupreme would not create man for the briefand purposeless existence which he passeshere. Were that all, lif
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. a purpose. Reason teaches that theSupreme would not create man for the briefand purposeless existence which he passeshere. Were that all, life would not beworth the living. What then would be theobject of mans creation? We are forced, in the examination of thissubject, to the conclusion that there is abeyond toward which we are all drifting. What that future is nonemay absolutely know on earth. We may conjecture, but the certaintyis withheld because it would not be well for us to know the , anticipation, hope—would all die if we kuuw to an abso-lute certainty the duties of the morrow. If there is a sphere in which man will retain his individualitybeyond this existence, what will be his condition there? That is aquestion about which, again, there is nothing definitely known. Theinference is, however, that if man retains his individuality inanother existence, the hopes entertained, the loves cherished, andthe wisdom acquired here will be retained and possessed Joseph Franz Gall, Distinguished Phrenolocist who Fii-st Mapped Out andDesignated the Phrenological Organs. Our future condition, then, will depend upon the life daily lived onearth. This leads us to a study of man, and to an examination ofthe causes which influence his action and develop his character. It was a former belief with many people that all good actions werethe result of an angel influence acting upon the individual from iheoutside; that all evil was the work of an evil spirit. A study ofhuman nature, however, brought a chan
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