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the languages spoken by savage tribes in Africa, as quoted 

 by Professor Max Miiller, were cited here. Finding man 

 thus capable of, nay, impelled to change and progress, we 

 saw held out for us in Xature hopes of a better future 

 ■wherein our spiritual part should more and more dominate 

 the bodily, should be purified to clearer seeing, and should 

 become in fashion nearer the Highest. But Tongues could 

 also teach us to look around, to be humble, and to see glory 

 in our fellowship with the animals. As we learned that we 

 were not self-existent, so we came to feel that we were not 

 alone.' We saw that we owned something of a common 

 being with creation ; we became conscious of a throb within 

 us beating in harmony with the essential life of all breath- 

 ing things. We were made to see that not only was the 

 rest of creation made for our use in a material way, but 

 that in an immaterial way, as touching our moral being 

 we were but imperfect, shorn of much strength and seeing 

 if this lower creation had not come to our help. This had 

 been said in noble words by a poet^ ss of our generation — 

 Mrs. Browning : — 



" solemn-beating heart 

 Of Nature ! I have knowledge that thou art 

 Bound into man's by cords he cannot sever; 

 And, what time they are slackened by him ever, 

 So to attest his own supernal part. 

 Still runneth thy vibration fast and strong 

 The slackened cord along." 



