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Who dares to name His name, 
Or belief in Him proclaim, 
Veiled in mystery as He is, the All-enfolder? 
Gleams across the mind His light, 
Feels the lifted soul His might, 
Dare it then deny His reign, the All-upholder? 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
MATTER AND FORCE.* 
As I rode through the Schwarzwald, I said to myself: That little 
fire which glows star-like across the dark-growing moor, where the 
sooty smith bends over his anvil, and thou hopest to replace thy lost 
horseshoe is it a detached, separated speck, cut off from the whole 
Universe; or indissolubly joined to the whole? Thou fool, tha 
smithy fire was primarily kindled at the Sun; is fed by air that 
circulates from before Noah's Deluge, from beyond the Dogstar; 
therein, with Iron Force, and Coal Force, and the far stranger Force 
of Man, are cunning affinities and battles and victories of Force 
brought about; it is a little ganglion, or nervous center, in the 
great vital system of Immensity. Call it, if thou wilt, an uncon- 
scious Altar, kindled on the" bosom of the All. . . . Detached, 
separated! I say there is no such separation: nothing hitherto 
was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, 
works together with all ; is borne forward on the bottomless, 
shoreless Hood of action, and lives through perpetual metamor- 
phoses. C ARLYLE. 
IT is the custom of the professors in the Royal School 
of Mines in London to give courses of evening lectures 
every year to workingmen. The lecture-room holds 600 
people; and tickets to this amount are disposed of as 
quickly as they can be handed to those who apply for them. 
So desirous are the workingmen of London to attend these 
lectures, that the persons who fail to obtain tickets always 
bear q large proportion to those who succeed. Indeed, if 
the lecture-room could hold 2,000 instead of 600, I do not 
doubt that every one of its benches would be occupied on 
these occasions. It is, moreover, worthy of remark that 
the lectures are but rarely of a character which could help 
the workingnwn in his daily pursuits. The information 
acquired is hardly ever of a nature which admits of being 
turned into money. It is, therefore, a pure desire for 
* A Lecture delivered to the workingmen of Dundee, September 
5, 1867, with additions. 
