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Show upon ideas. In a cabinet of natural history we become sensible of a certain occul recognition and sympathy in regard to th most bizarre forms of beast, fish, and insect. The American who has been con fined, in his own country, to the sight o building surprise Peter's a structure designed after foreign models, i on entering York Minster or St Rome, by the feeling that thes are imitations also,-faint copie of an invisible archetype. Nor has scienc sufficient humanity, so long as the natu ralist overlooks that wonderful congruit which subsists between man & the world of which he is lord, not because he is th most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something o himself in every great and small thing, i every mountain stratum, in every new la of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheri influence which observation or analysi lay open. A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, th beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth cen tury. The following lines are part of hi little poem on Man "Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another 8 |
