30 THOMSONIAN SYSTEM
It is a most precious gift that is given to all who accept it, that of knowing how to pass from a remedy when it is not the right one, and so be open to find the correct one. Let us gain a real understanding of the nature of all things with which we have to deal, and let us work on that understanding. God himself [the functioning Law] will teach us when we are willing to follow in the light offered us.' "
THE PHILOSOPHY
AND PRINCIPLES OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM
1. Matter, in all its diversity of character, quality, form
and combination, may be classified into two great divisions,
namely: Organic and inorganic.
2. Organic matter includes the two vast kingdoms of
Nature: the animal (brute and man) and the vegetable.
3. Inorganic matter includes all bodies not possessed of
conscious life, or such as are not endowed with a capacity for
life, that is, free movement.
4. Inorganic and dead matter is controlled or governed
by laws of force, embracing chemistry and physics and natural
philosophy.
5. Organic or Uving bodies, though influenced to a
certain extent by the laws which govern inorganic matter, are
sustained in their living state by vital laws, which hold su
premacy over and control those of physics and chemistry, which
they modify and render subservient on many occasions to the
purpose of vitality.
6. The principle of life is the same in all animated
beings; and the human animal economy is governed by the
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