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as mental or spiritual phenomena must also come under the domain of motion.

I would not be understood as speaking lightly of experimental chemistry or instrumental philosophy. These are the necessary adjuncts to prime observation, and serve to demonstrate and analyze the details resulting from the causation of nature’s laboratory. Where the clouds of our atmosphere are seen to assume a peculiar form and systematic arrangement, as is often the case with cirri, standing uniformly in their fimbriated lines and curves agreeably to a precedent or succedent phenomenon, we may be vastly assisted in the reductions of such phenomena to a certain and supervening cause heretofore unrecognised, by noting at the time the range of barometer, of thermometer, and particularly that of the electroscope, and even the experimental chemist should bring in his aid by showing how electrical action disposed itself upon his test matter, at such times. 

The instructive observer may be compared to the exploring naturalist who traverses the forest to find the best trees, and the chemist and philosopher to the architect and handicraftman who are to shape them into forms and [[strikethrough]] buildings [[/strikethrough]] systems. Moved by the impulses of inspiration - electrical [[strikethrough]] information [[/strikethrough]] impulses if you please, the contemplative is capable of grasping as a whole, certain phenomena, which are entirely unrecognised in our boundaries of science.

When, as elsewhere stated in this paper, certain plants foreshadow a coming change, where animals and insects show an uncommon disposition, and when man feels that some thing invests him out of the ordinary sensations, we can always find some corresponding, or what may be a better term, correlative motion, going on in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, and it is at such times that the eyes and nerves of men become so many

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fimbriated