" HAPPY is he who lives to understand, 

 Not human nature only, but explores 

 All natures, to the end that he may find 

 The law that governs each ; and where begins 

 The union, the partition where, that makes 

 Kind and degree, among all visible beings ; 

 The constitutions, powers, and faculties 

 "Which they inherit cannot step beyond 

 And cannot fall beneath ; that do assign 

 To every class its station and its office, 

 Through all the mighty commonwealth of things ; 

 Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man. 

 Such converse, if directed by a meek, 

 Sincere, and humble spirit, teaches love : 

 For knowledge is delight ; and such delight 

 Breeds love : yet, suited as it rather is 

 To thought and to the climbing intellect, 

 It teaches less to love, than to adore ; 



If that be not indeed the highest love ! ' : 



Wordsworth. 



