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"Explain 'that solid falsehood the Material'" Simply that it is not these more External things of time & sense that are the true "realities", but rather the "ideal world" so called, the mighty things of the soul & its thoughts, ideas, not things. The "Mighty past & the illimitable future." Consider a moment - it is not so? Which is the true reality. the fleeting transitory thing, that Material, that you lay your hand of flesh upon today, but which ten thousand secondary causes may destroy. I will not now say annihilate tomorrow, or rather the Eternal thought. the idea, whose being the fiat of Omnipotence itself declares is forever & forever.

  There is a "great thought" in the theory of that speculative old German or Prussian, I forget his name, that there is no such thing as the Material as a thing, as Materiality; but Infinite Power has invested certain - not atoms - but points of space with certain faculties - of attraction & repulsion for instance. If you strike your fist against the wall, it is not that there is really anything there, but simply that God has ordered a particular property, an idea to be there displayed. So there is nothing Material but the Will of God. The failure of that Will for a moment would annihilate the Universe. "Extract from Prov. Phil" I judge that your imagination is not a very correct one, if you never imagined a thing aright.
 I hope you did not give me credit for that other Extract from Prov. Phil. As for your renewed question about "some sweet circumstance etc," I cannot say that I really remember any particular instance in my experience . But then it seem somehow just as if it might be!

I guess I have faith.