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deep, cool and unimpassioned mind is freed 

 from its fever, its troubles, bubbles, noise 

 and foam. And, above all, the sources of a 

 river, — which may be considered as belong- 

 ing to the atmosphere, — and its termination 

 in the ocean, may be regarded as imaging 

 the divine origin of the human mind, and 

 its being ultimately returned to, and lost in, 

 the Infinite and Eternal Intelligence from 

 which it originally sprung. 



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