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Show g (4 s makes the eternal attraction whic draw men to science, but the end is lost sight o in attention to the means. In view of thi half-sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that, " poetry comes neare to vital truth than history." Every surmis and vaticination of the mind is entitled t a certai respect and w learn to prefe imperfect theories, and sentences, whic contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable sugges tion. A wise writer will feel that the end of study & composition are best answere b announcin undiscovere region o thought, and so communicating, throug hope, new activity to the torpid spirit I shall therefore conclude this essay wit some traditions of man and nature, whic a certain poet sang to me; and which, a they have always been in the world, an perhap reappea to ever bard, may b both history and prophecy «The foundations of man are not in matter but in spirit. But the element of spirit i eternity. Toit, therefore, the longest serie of events, the oldest chronologies ar young and recent & In the cycle of th universa man fro who th know 8 |