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"Explain 'that solid falsehood the Material'." Simply that it is not these mere 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 -- is it 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 fial of omnipotence itself declares is forever & forever. There is a "great thought" in the theory of that speculative old German or Russian, 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 any thing 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 Bro.? 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 Bro.? Phil. As for your renewed question about "some newest circumstance &c." I cannot say that I really remember any particular instance in my experience. But then it seems somehow just as if it might be! I guess I have faith.