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dearer and nearer to the heart, than even the bands of 
brotherly affection, are the eternal ties of truth! With 
what a charming presentiment of that glorious moment, 
when the sphere of our activity fhall be infinitely enlar- 
ged, and our faculties exalted, and rendered equal to a 
free participation of all the treasures of knowledge, do we 
hasten to meet a friend, who is introduced to us by wis- 
dom ! tyr 
See, said the old man, after returning my embrace, I 
have resumed the garb of fleth which I formerly wore, and 
will now beto thee, what I fhall be hereafter,—thy guide. 
For in that world where the unfettered spirit labours con- 
tinually with unwearied ardour, rest is only a change 
of employment; our own investigation into the mysteries. 
of the Godhead is interrupted only by that instruction 
which we give to those newly arrived from the earth; 
_ and I am to be the first instructor of thy soul in the ex- 
alted knowledge of the eternal power. He led me by the 
hand to a descending cloud, and we took our flight into 
the immeasurable extent of heaven. I sawhere the moon, 
Viviani, with her mountains and vallies ; I saw the’ stars 
of the Milky Way, those of the Pleiades, and that of Ori- 
on; I saw the spots of the sun, and the moons of Jupiter ; 
all that I first saw here below, I there saw more clearly 
with unafsisted eyes, and wandered in heaven among my 
discoveries, full of the sweetest self-congratulation, like 
some friend of the human race, who wanders upon earth 
among the fruits of his beneficence. Every hour of my 
labours here was there fruitful of the highest happinefs ; of 
a happinefs which never can be felt by him who enters 
futurity destitute of knowledge. And therefore, Viviani, 
old and feeble as I am, will I never give over my search 
after truth; for he who spends his life in the godlike em- 
ployment, will find my joy spring up for him hereafter, 
