attributes entirely different from those of our bodies. These are powers and functions not only differing from those of matter in its abstract or unorganized condition, but differing also from any of the known results of organization. Respiration, secretion, cirenlation, motion, etc., are functions incident to matter in a state of organization; but thought, reason, memory, judgment, will, etc., are just as different from those physical functions as from the solidity, magnitude, figure, etc., which are the essential attributes of ordinary matter. Thus differing in its functions and attributes from all the known functions and attributes of matter in any known states, we habitually look upon the soul as something different from matter, and therefore different from the body-something which not merely acts when it is acted upon, but which is selfacting, which thinks and wills from its own inherent impulses and emotions. We call it spirit; we say that it is immaterial—that it is a thing of life-a being whose essential attribute is to exist, as the essential attribute of matter is extension. We know not what it is; we know that it is not matter. Again, we know the soul, or thinking and reasoning part of man, to be distinct from the body, from our consciousness of personal identity-that is, from the fact that, amidst all the changes of a long lifetime, we still know ourselves to be the same individual. It is a well-known fact that during our lifetime our bodies completely change their material parts several times, and that in manhood we probably have not a particle of the substance which constituted our bodies in childhood and youth. Yet some part of us seems unquestionably to have come up with us from the earliest dawn of childhood, and we are conscious, amid all these changes of body, that we are the same individuals we were in childhood and youth. The impressions made in early life, the bent of character given in youth, the scenes, the emotions, the desires which were active in us in childhood, are still fresh in the mind of the old man; and though, perhaps, in the circuit of years, a half a score of renovations may have changed the entire body, yet the old man still feels that he is the same being that in sunny childhood played about his mother's knees, in gay, happy, joyous youth, mingled with loved companions whose memory still is dear, and in mature manhood plunged boldly into the struggles and duties of life. How may we account for this, except upon the supposition that the soul, the real man, has come up uninfluenced among all these changes, and that therefore the soul is something different from the body? Again, many of the manifestations of the mind in life and death prove to us that it must be something distinct from the body. If it were not-if the soul is only an attribute or result of the physical organization, like respiration, circulation, etc., we should expect a much more perfect agreement than we find between the powers and activity of the soul and those of the body. We should expect to find the soul, not only affected in its emotional nature, and experiencing pleasure or pain according to the varying states of the body, but, even more than this, we should expect the soul in its very capacity and activity to be dependent on the perfection of the physical system; and yet it is manifest that there exists by no means such correspondence and dependence between the capacity and activity of the soul and the condition of the body. It is neither the magnitude nor the integrity of the body which determines the powers of the human soul, nor do they repose and decay with the repose and decay of the body. A very feeble frame often contains a very large soul; in dreams men have solved problems on which they had labored in vain when awake, and frequently, when the body is almost worn out with disease, the soul has increased vigor. But we may see in death itself a proof of immortality and unquestionable evidence of the distinctness of the soul from the body. When we see the soul come up to the indefinable and mysterious limits of life; when, in full consciousness, it lingers between two worlds, the one passed, the other all unknown; when the body is sinking away, is feeble, is broken, is dying, and the soul knows it, and we know it, and see that it is powerless-that fatal disorganization from which it can not recover has taken place within it-that all that is physical in man is so disarranged that it can no longer perform its functions and live; when we discover that often in the midst of these unmistakable evidences of decay and death, the soul still survives-that in the midst of this dissolution of the man the mind perfectly maintains its integrity-that not one of its powers or faculties is weakened or extinguished-that it perceives as keenly, judges as correctly, reasons as accurately, loves as strongly, as when the body was in vigorous health, is this not a moral demonstration that the mind of man is an existence whose perfection or whose being is not dependent on the physical organism that is crumbling into ruin? bitor's Cablr. OUR ENGRAVINGS.-Cromwell Dictating a State Let ter. When the news of the massacre in Piedmont was received in England, Lord Protector Cromwell was roused to a sacred fury. He caused his Latin Secretary, Milton, to write to all the Protestant powers, broke off his negotiations for a treaty with France, then allied with Savoy, compelled Mazarin to use his influence to get justice done in those valleys, and even dictated a letter to Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy, threatening that in case the persecutions of the Protestants were not stopped, the thunders of his cannon on the Mediterranean should be heard with terror, even in Rome. The remonstrances of England were effectual: the Catholics quietly submitted, the Vaudois were restored to their rights, and Europe felt the thrill in every nerve. Western Wilds. Our readers can interpret this beautiful picture for themselves. It needs no commendation, as its excellence speaks its own praise. 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