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Show naturalists, but they freeze their subjec under the wintry light of the understanding. Is not prayer also a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something & But when faithful thinker resolut to detac ever object from personal relations, and see i in the light of thought, shall, at the sam time, kindle science with the fire of th holiest affections, then will God go fort anew into the creation It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. Th invariable mark of wisdom is to see th miraculous in the common & What is day? What is a year? What is summer What is woman? What is a child? Wha is sleep? To our blindness, these thing seem unaffecting. W make fables to hid the baldness of the fact an we say, to the higher law o when the fact is seen unde idea, the gaudy fable fade ‘We behold the real highe conform it, a the mind. Bu the light of a and shrivels law » To th wise, therefore, a fact is true poetry, an the most beautiful of fables. These wonders are brought to our own door. Yo 8 Digital Image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, Al rights reserved |
