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to Him who is "the head and crown of things." The sacred sense of 

 Duty, the distinction of Right and Wrong, the consciousness of the In- 

 finite and Eternal — -all those wondrous intuitions which bind us to the 

 strange realities of the spiritual world, — where else do we find these ? 

 It is enough for me here merely to allude to these things. While man 

 can look out upon the material world, in common with the animals 

 through the windows of the senses, he can through another avenue, 

 open to him alone, behold the glories of the kingdom of heaven, into 

 which, whoso will, may enter and dwell there, and find freedom in obe- 

 dience, perfect possession in perfect renunciation, riches in poverty, anel 

 exaltation in humility. To him who can realize this aspect of his na- 

 ture, there is no extravagance in those lines of tlie old I'latonist, Henry 

 More, who "mystic" though he may be, deserves a more general repu- 

 tation than he enjoys : 



When I myself from mine own self do quit. 



And each thing else, then an all-spreden love 



To the vast universe my soul doth fit 



Makes me half equal to all-seeing Jove ; 



My mightie wings, high-stretch'd then clapping liglif, 

 I brush the starres and make them shine more bright. 



Then all the works of God with close embrace 

 I dearly hug in my enlarged arms, 

 All the hid paths of heavenly love I trace. 

 And boldly listen to his secret charms. 



Then clearly view I where true light doth rise, 



And where eternall Night low-pressed lies. 



From this point of view of our subject, any attempt to prove the 

 origin of man from inferior races by the laws of progressive dcvelope- 

 ment appears utterly preposterous, so wide is the cliasm between him 

 and those most nearly allied to him. The stories of fairies and satyrs 

 and other semi-hunian hybrids, are of course now sent to the limbo of 

 things forgotten upon earth. The scarcely less absurd tales of wild 

 men in a hairy and quadrupedal "state of nature," which once found 

 their way into scientific books, are equally exploded. The recent ac- 

 count of a negro with a tail found running wild in the woods of Lou- 

 isiana, and which would have been seized on, fifty years ago, as the de- 

 scription of a veritable homo Jlfricanus caudatus, has been forgotten al- 

 most as soon as published. All these cases have undoubtedly been 

 abandoned as stray idiots, as were Teter and Caspar llauscr. As to tlic 

 chain of being wliicli commences at the lowest and most obscure iorm 

 of organization, and is continued u[) to man, the noliun is true enough 



