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Show matte is no fancied by som poet, bu stands in the will of God, and so is free t be known by all men. It appears to men or it does not appear. When in fortunat hours we ponder this miracle, the wis ‘man doubts, if, at all other times, he is no blind and deaf « Can these things be And overcome us like a summer's cloud ‘Without our special wonder?" for the universe becomes transparent, an the light of higher laws than its own, shine through it. It is the standing problem whic has exercised the wonder and the study o every fine genius since the world began th from the era of the Egyptians an Brahmins, to that of Pythagoras, of Plato of Bacon, of Leibnitz, of Swedenborg & There sits the Sphinx at the road-side and from age to age, as each prophet come by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle. There seems to be a necessity in spiri to manifest itself in material forms; an day and night, river and storm, beast an bird, acid and alkali, pre-existin necessar Ideas in the mind of God, and are wha they are by virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit. A Fact is the en 4 |