THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. 105 
particular,’ by seeing God’s whole likeness, His 
whole glory, reflected as in a mirror even in the 
meanest flower; and that nothing but the dusness 
of our own souls prevents them from seeing day 
and night in all things, however small or trivial 
to human eclecticism, the Lord Jesus Christ Him- 
self fulfilling His own saying, “ My Father worketh 
hitherto, and I work.” 
To me it seems (to sum up, in a few words, what 
I have tried to say) that such development and pro- 
gress as have as yet been actually discovered in 
nature, bear every trace of having been produced by 
successive acts of thought and will in some personal 
mind; which, however boundlessly rich and power- 
ful, is still the Archetype of the human mind; and 
therefore (for to this I confess I have been all along 
tending) probably capable, without violence to its 
properties, of becoming, like the human mind, 
incarnate. 
But to descend from these perhaps too daring 
speculations, there is another, and more human, 
source of interest about the animal who is writhing 
