dom of children. These are example son's momentary grasp of the sce exertions of a power which exists no but an instantaneous in-stream or space, The difference between t and the ideal force of man is happily f the schoolmen, in saying, that the kno man is an evening knowledge, vesper nitio, but that of God is a morning k matutina cognitio. The problem of restoring to the wo nal and eternal beauty, is solved by th tion of the soul. The ruin or the b we see when we look at nature, is in eye. The axis of vision is not coinci the axis of things, and so they appear parent but opake. The reason why lacks unity, and lies broken and in hea cause man is disunited with himself. I be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the of the spirit. Love is as much its de perception. Indeed, neither can be per out the other. In the uttermost me the words, thought is devout, and d thought. Deep calls unto deep. But life, the marriage is not celebrated. innocent men who worship God afte s not yet extended to the use of all their facies. And there are patient naturalists, but y freeze their subject under the wintry light the understanding. Is not prayer also a study truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound anite? No man ever prayed heartily, without rning something. But when a faithful thinker, olute to detach every object from personal reions, and see it in the light of thought, shall, the same time, kindle science with the fire of holiest affections, then will God go forth ew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared study, to search for objects. The invariable ark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the mmon. What is a day? What is a year? hat is summer? What is woman? What is child? What is sleep? To our blindness, se things seem unaffecting. We make fables hide the baldness of the fact and conform it, we say, to the higher law of the mind. But en the fact is seen under the light of an idea, - gaudy fable fades and shrivels. We behold è real higher law. To the wise, therefore, a et is true poetry, and the most beautiful of These wonders are brought to our own You also are a man. oles. or. Man and woman, fortune, are known to you. Learn tha these things is superficial, but that each enon has its roots in the faculties and of the mind. Whilst the abstract quest pies your intellect, nature brings it in crete to be solved by your hands. wise inquiry for the closet, to compare, point, especially at remarkable crises i daily history, with the rise and progress in the mind. So shall we come to look at the w new eyes. It shall answer the endles of the intellect, What is truth? an affections, What is good? by yieldi passive to the educated Will. Then s to pass what my poet said; Nature is but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes immobility or bruteness of nature, is th of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it i it is obedient. Every spirit builds itself and beyond its house a world; and b world, a heaven. Know then, that t you. For you is the phenom fect. What we are, that only can we that Adam had, all that Cæsar could, and can do. Adam called his house, he earth; Cæsar called his house, Rome; yo exists for ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet for line and point for point, your dominion s great as theirs, though without fine names. ld, therefore, your own world. As fast as conform your life to the pure idea in your d, that will unfold its great proportions. A espondent revolution in things will attend influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable earances, swine, spiders, snakes, pests, madses, prisons, enemies, vanish; they are temary and shall be no more seen. The sordor filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and wind exhale. As when the summer comes n the south; the snow-banks melt, and the e of the earth becomes green before it, so Il the advancing spirit create its ornaments ng its path, and carry with it the beauty it ts, and the song which enchants it; it shall w beautiful faces, warm hearts, wise disrse, and heroic acts, around its way, until is no more seen. The kingdom of man r nature, which cometh not with observa■, — a dominion such as now is beyond his am of God, — he shall enter without more nder than the blind man feels who is gradurestored to perfect sight.' |