Excerpt from Essence and Substance: A Treatise on Organic and Inorganic Matter, the Finite and the Infinite, Transient and Eternal LifeI shall start this treatise with a somewhat bold, and old, but incontrovertible assumption, which I accept as an axiom, viz., that whatever has one end must, necessarily, have two, whether measured in space or time, distance or duration. I shall adhere strictly t0'this as law throughout this treatise, and if I cannot find evidence sufficient to establish a belief in eternal life, with this law in full force, shall sur render the point, and still retain the demonstrated and fully established fact of the Spiritual life, as a continuation of this life after the soul casts off the body. Certainly, proof of spiritual life is not more proof of its eternal duration than is the fact of this life proof in itself that we Shall live always here.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.