SOURCE OF ALL BEAUTY. 



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the insect yet more richly than the lily. But, above all, let 

 ns notice that in the forms of nature, whether of flower or of 

 insect, those are always the most beautifully coloured whose 

 wearers are most exposed to the light and joy most to sport in 

 sunshine; and let us read herein that all the moral beauties we 

 would seek, all the celestial hues which should give tone and 

 colour to our varying thoughts, must have their source in 

 Him of whom the sun natural is but an emanation and a 

 type in that glorious Sun of the world spiritual, from which 

 it' we turn away, our sours best emblem is the darkling, sickly 

 plant, colourless for want of light, or the earth-buried grub, 

 livid and loathsome from absence of its rays. 



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