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It darkens early transparency, and hastens increment by its effects : 

 it promotes the vigour of organic matter, and enables it to resist decay. 



The presence of life arouses the consciousness of existence ; imparts 

 an anxiety for its preservation, and excites the expanding soul of man 

 to lofty contemplations. 



Let it cease ; — the tenement which it occupied : the matter which as 

 a medium, it endowed with activity and resolution, is speedily dissolved, 

 and disappears amidst the surrounding elements. 



