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Show 3. We are thus assisted by natural object in the expression of particular meanings But how great a languag to convey suc peppercorn informations! Did it need suc noble races of creatures, this profusion o forms, this hos nish ma ma of orb in heaven, to fur with the dictionary and gram of his municipa speech? Whils w use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that w have not yet put it to its use, neithe ar able. We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs Whilst we see that it always stands read to clothe what we would say, we canno avoid the question, whether the characters are not significant of themselves Have mountains, and waves, and skies no significance but what we consciousl give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts Th world is em blematic. Parts of speech are metaphor because the whole of nature is a metapho of the human mind. The laws of mora nature answer to those of matter as fac to face in a glass. "The visible world an the relation of its parts, is the dial plate o the invisible. & Th axiom of physic 4 |