THE ATMOSPHERE 249 



AYlmt, then, are we, materially, we poor beings of a 

 day, who move about at the bottom of this atmos- 

 phrric sea! But how great we are through thought, 

 which makes game of weighing the atmosphere and 

 the earth itself! In vain does the material universe 

 overwhelm us with its immensity; the mind is 

 superior to it, because it alone knows itself, and 

 it alone, hy a sublime privilege, has knowledge of 

 its divine author. " 



