LECTURE X. 



PROVISION FOR THE EMOTIONAL NATURE AND THE 

 VARIED INTELLECTUAL TASTES AND POWERS OF 



M1..V. 



V of the beautiful. Provision for it in nature. Taste. 

 :nided upon nature. Poetry. Bible lan- 

 guage. Painting and sculpture. Music. Conditions ne- 

 cessary for it. Beauty of outline and color. Clouds. 

 Crystals. PLi r ease of beauty in leaf and Jlower. 



flowers. Microscopic animals. Corals. Jelly- 

 JUkes. Shells. Their beauty not for themselves. In- 

 sects. Distribution of their color. Vertebrates. l> canty 

 of fossils. Ctrandenr and sublimity. Emotional nature 

 Perfect in man a : ^es ago. Different intellectual tastes pro- 

 / for. A -->ice and art thus secured. 



Sciences yet to be unfoliled. 



WE have considered, in the last two lectures, the 

 adaptations of the world to the intellectual nature 

 of man. This adaptation was shown to exist in that 

 order and harmony, thatmathematical and mechani- 

 cal connection of the objects in nature by which the 

 mind of man is not only able to grasp the plan of 

 creation, but finds in the study of natural objects the 

 constant source of mental improvement and delight. 

 We also showed that the provisions made for the 

 physical nature of man have reference to his intel- 

 lectual nature, as it is only through mind that he can 

 avail himself of the metals and forces of nature, 



