the material universe is but the manifestation of infinite Deity to our finite minds. Obviously, on this view, Matter--the only thing to which materialists concede real existence--is simply an orderly phantasmagoria; and God and the Soul--which materialists regard as mere fictions of the imagination--are the only conceptions that answer to real existences. [12] See my Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Part I. Chap. IV.; Part III. Chaps. III., IV. In the foregoing paragraph I have been setting down opinions with which I am prepared to agree, and which are not in conflict with anything that our study of the development of the objective world has taught us. In so far as that study may be supposed to bear on the question of a future life, two conclusions are open to us. First we may say that since the phenomena of mind appear and run their course along with certain specialized groups of material phenomena, so, too, they must disappear when these specialized groups are broken up. Or, in other words, we may say that every living person is an organized whole; consciousness is something which pertains to this organized whole, as music belongs to the harp that is entire; but when the harp is broken it is silent, and when the organized whole of personality falls to pieces consciousness ceases forever. To many well-disciplined minds this conclusion seems irresistible; and doubtless it would be a sound one--a good Baconian conclusion--if we were to admit, with the materialists, that the possibilities of existence are limited by our tiny and ephemeral experience.