Hiram E. Butler

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was not only power in itself, but the cause and source from whence all manifestations of power emanated.

only by the unanswerable argument of analogy and logic. T

This makes it necessary that we should reason from the facts of our observation and experience, and accept the deductions logically resultant therefrom as the obvious truth.

Philosophy began, and has expanded, with the effort to determine what is life; and to-night the same problem is before us for consideration, and we still ask, What is life?

We turn and investigate the human body; this is the starting-point of the ancient philosophers.

Let us in our investigations return to the methods of the ancient philosophers, beginning with the highest attribute of man, — the will.

est attribute of man, — the will.

It is by the power of will that we are enabled to move a hand

We know that we cannot move a muscle without the consent of the will.