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must learn to feel your oneness with them, 

 and the strong family tie which makes 

 everything that concerns them a matter of 

 interest to you. 



Novalis called Spinoza &quot; a God-intoxi 

 cated man.&quot; Intoxication is not a pleas 

 ant word, enthusiasm is better, en-the- 

 osiasm, and it is this enthusiasm, the gift 

 of Nature and the imagination combined, 

 the offspring of poetry and fact, that is 

 the greatest, the richest, blessing of life. &quot; I 

 do not see in Nature the colours that you 

 find there,&quot; said the lady to Turner. &quot; Don t 

 you wish you could r madam ?&quot; was the 

 reply. 



Suppose you try to look a little deeper, 

 see a little further, turn the microscope upon 

 your blossom, and discover a thousand beau 

 ties, the existence of which you had never 

 suspected ; turn your telescope upon the 

 heavens, and find them bursting into bloom, 

 world beyond world receding into the 

 vast, unfathomable depths of space ; be 

 lieve me, you will not become blase 1 with 

 the extent of your knowledge, will not feel 

 that the bloom is wholly gone from the 

 peach, the perfume from the rose, the foam 

 from the bounding wave. 



It seems to me that I have frequently 



