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pained by it when it should be ex-
-pected. But the mind is afraid of
contradictions and absurdities, and is
pained by them, and can not be
at rest with them, and will not
tolerate them. And, in respect
to the Supernatural, we hold
that there is nothing contradicto-
-ry or absurd in the idea of it;
that its possibility is suggested by
the idea of the natural, and partic-
-ularly by the psychico-natural,
that the need of it to account for
certain phenomena has always
been felt, and that the actual ope-
-ration of it is evinced by creations

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