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touching its edges ; and who by every finer telescope is shown an in- 

 creased multitude of such suns, many of them far larger. 



Hereafter as heretofore, higher faculty and deeper insight will raise 

 rather than lower this sentiment. At present the most powerful and 

 most instructed intellect has neither the knowledge nor the capacity 

 required for symbolizing in thought the totality of things. Occupied 

 with one or other division of Nature, the man of science usually does 

 not know enough of the other divisions even to rudely conceive the 

 extent and complexity of their phenomena ; and, supposing him to 

 have adequate knowledge of each, yet he is unable to think of them 

 as a whole. Wider and more complex intellect may hereafter help 

 him to form a vague consciousness of them in their totality. We may 

 say that just as an undeveloped musical faculty, able only to appreciate 

 a simple melody, can not grasp the variously-entangled passages and 

 harmonies of a symphony, which in the minds of composer and con- 

 ductor are unified into involved musical effects awakening far greater 

 feeling than is possible to the musically uncultured, so, by future 

 more evolved intelligences, the course of things now apprehensible 

 only in parts may be apprehensible all together, with an accompanying 

 feeling as much beyond that of the present cultured man as his feel- 

 ing is beyond that of the savage. 



And this feeling is not likely to be decreased but increased by that 

 analysis of knowledge which, while forcing him to agnosticism, yet con- 

 tinually prompts him to imagine some solution of the Great Enigma 

 which he knows can not be solved. Especially must this be so when 

 he remembers that the very notions, beginning and end, cause and 

 purpose, are relative notions belonging to human thought, which are 

 probably inapplicable to the ultimate reality transcending human 

 thought, and when, though suspecting that explanation is a word 

 without meaning when applied to this ultimate reality, he yet feels 

 compelled to think there must be an explanation. 



But, amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the 

 more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute cer- 

 tainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, 

 from which all things proceed. 







THE IGUANODON. 



THE iguanodon was discovered by Dr. Man tell, in the Weald en of 

 England, in 1822, and has since figured in geological books as 

 one of the largest and most remarkable of the animals whose former 

 existence is revealed in the fossil beds of past ages. It is described 

 in the second edition of Dana's " Geology " as " an herbivorous dino- 

 saur of the Wealden. It was thirty feet long, and of great bulk, and 



