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Scope and Contents Handwritten letter from N.D. Pendleton to Bishop William F. Pendleton. “Dear Brother, I find that I have the “Posthumous Tracts.” Have read them with great pleasure. Certainly the “Animal Spirits” of the P.T. is not identical with the Spirituous Fluid of the “Economy.” The one appears to be manufactured in the Cortical gland, the other in the Simple Cortex or fibers which construct the gland(?). From a comparison of the teachings it strikes me that the Animal Spirits is a volume of the...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Eldred Edward Iungerich in Bryn Ahtyn, PA, USA. General Church letterhead. A second typed copy attached. Handwritten copy also attached. Pendleton engages in a doctrinal debate with Iungerich about the Lord’s glorification and the nature of spiritual matter as presented in the Principia. Pendleton writes, “Is it fully satisfactory to you to see the spiritual as simply a rapid orbital movement of a material unit, say of third finites? . . . I do...