AS TO OURSELVES 



and reaches there that Great Reality which 

 by its efferent nerves tells the human hand 

 to turn and deal with the properties and 

 the forces of matter as it wills. Thus one 

 can now take passage from the New York 

 Central Depot, and in twenty minutes 

 pass through seven miles of the subway 

 which runs under the streets of two cities 

 and under a river on which great steamers 

 ply. Matter enough had to be handled ere 

 the way was finished, but the designer 

 decreed beforehand how every shovelful 

 was to be removed. Also the marvellous 

 bridge which spans the river overhead 

 existed down to its last wire and bolt, in 

 the mind of the great engineer who 

 planned it before any part of it existed on 

 earth. But we need not go on, for the 

 whole earth is filled with the glory of man 

 by his handiwork. 



To some all this sounds trite enough, 

 because everybody knows that man has a 

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