26 Walks in New England 



dwell amid its myriad forms, and search in them 

 for the great secrets, in great measure begin at the 

 wrong end with an assumption of the material as 

 the ultimate. But there is new light gleaming 

 over the field of life, a new study of the things 

 we can physically touch and see as related to 

 things beyond physics, a growth of science to 

 ward spirit, a conviction that life was before those 

 manifestations which touch our imperfect physical 

 sense ; which was and is infinite and illimitable, 

 and as it never began can never end. The uni 

 verse, from least atom to greatest concourse of 

 atoms, from the simplest sensitiveness to the fur 

 thest reach of man s soul, is all one living being, 

 of which man no less surely and no more truly 

 than the amoeba is the expression. 



