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Show PROSPECT inquirie spectin frame of things ways the truest possible-it is s dim because i mind among th reth laws of th world and th the highest reason is alThat which seems faintl refined, is often faint an is deepest seated in th eternal verities. Empiri cal science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledg of functions an processes, to bereave the student of th manly contemplation of the whole »# Th savant becomes unpoetic. But the best rea naturalist who lends an entire and devou attentio to truth, wil see that ther re mains much to learn of his relation to th world, an that it is not to be learned b any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrive at by untaught sallies of the spirit, b a continual self-recovery, and by entir 7 Digital Image © 2005 Mar iot Library Unive |