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CHAPTER XVII.

THE HUMAN FORM AND THE DESTINY OF MAN.



The Particular Constitution Of The Human
Form And Its Relation To Creation
Show That Man Is Created
To Live Forever.

The form of man with clearness and certainty points toward his purpose and destiny. His constitution, when observed in its orderly arrangement, satisfactorily argues through its rational design the immortality of man. The design of use is so permeating and controlling in him that the rational thought can not permit his purpose to fail; nor can it conceive how, consistently with the intelligence displayed in his formation, he can ever be severed from the law of use that created him.

We are now to notice in detail the degrees in the human constitution and their relation, from which man's position in creation may more fully appear, as well as the purpose of his existence, the laws of his well being, and reasons for his immortality. To make definite the ideas to be