man and yet one who the true order of nature and the visible as proceeding from the invisible cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice there is an defect in the organ language statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the and undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought when he said i am god but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear and the world itself for the seeming by the good story about his shoe sow can i hope for better hap in my attempts to spiritual facts thus only as far as i share the of truth so far shall i be felt by every true person to say what is just the method of nature who could ever it that rushing stream will not stop to be observed we can never surprise nature in a corner never find the end of a thread never teu where to set the first stone the bird to lay her egg the egg to be a bird the we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution its is the of the pitch of the its is a perpetual every natural fact is an and that from which it is an also and from every is a new if anything could stand still it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted and if it were a mind would be as insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought and do not flow with the course of nature not the cause but an ever novel effect nature always from above it is unbroken obedience the beauty of these fair objects is imported into them from a and eternal spring in all animal and vegetable forms the that no no can account for the facts but a mysterious principle of life most be assumed which not only the organ but makes the organ how silent how spacious what room for all yet without place to an � in in equal fulness in balanced beauty the dance of the hours goes forward still like an of incense hke a strain of music like a sleep it is and boundless it will not be nor nor shown away profane philosopher thou in nature the cause this to that and that to the next and the next to the third and everything thou must ask in another mood thou must feel it and love it thou must behold it in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists ere thou know the law known it will not be but gladly beloved and enjoyed the life throughout the whole body the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any but the steady degradation of each to the success of all allows the understanding no place to work nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end to a universe of ends and not to one � a work of ecstasy to be represented by a circular movement as intention might be signified by a straight of definite length each every other there is no revolt in all the from the no of an individual hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an of the world when we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit we do not reckon individuals nature knows neither palm nor oak but only vegetable ufe which into forests and the globe with a of grass and vines that no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby appears from this that if man himself be considered as the end and it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men we see that it has not succeeded read alternately in natural and in civil history a of for example with a volume of french pour when we have spent our wonder in this hospitality with which boon nature turns off new without end into her wide common as fast as the make coral � and hospitable to souls � and then the sight to look into this court of louis and see the game that is played there � duke and and madame � a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to your rival and ruin him with this solemn in wig and stars � the king one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous and if so whether the experiment have not failed and whether it be quite worth while to make more and the innocent space with so poor an article i think we feel not much otherwise if instead of beholding foolish nations we take the great and wise men the eminent souls and narrowly inspect their biography none of them seen by himself � and his performance compared with his promise or idea will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and person was at last procured is to questions of this sort nature replies i grow i grow all is infant when we are with the of the toiling to the length of her line the return of her curve we are by the perception that a great deal is doing that all seems just begun remote aims are in active accomplishment we can point nowhere to anything final but tendency appears on all hands planet system total nature is growing uke a field of in july is becoming somewhat else is in rapid the does not more strive to be man than yonder of we call a to be a ring a a globe and parent of new stars why should 