This spirit is brought out of matter by vegetation.

By means of vegetation, it is conveyed into animal frames, in which its purest essence centres in the brain....

This is no idle theory," he adds, "no vain hypothesis, for making matter think.

It is a clear proposition, showing how matter is employed by the Supreme Intelligence for evolving, training, and educating spirit."-- "We conclude that Progression is the great law of the universe, the purpose for which its present arrangement was ordained; and that the object of this progression is _the evolvement of mind out of matter._" This is a new and very singular phase of Materialism.

It is widely different from the doctrine which was taught by the infidel writers of the last century.