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to escape the limitations of personality, and 

 to become part of the movement, which, 

 hour by hour, has passed through one 

 marvellous change after another, until now 

 it seems to pause under the sleepless vigi- 

 lance of the stars. They look down from 

 their immeasurable altitudes on the vast 

 expanse of which only a miniature hemi- 

 sphere stretches before me. How wide and 

 fathomless seems the ocean, even from a 

 single isolated point ! What infinite dis- 

 tances are only half veiled by the distant 

 horizon line ! What islands and continents 

 and undiscovered worlds lie beyond that 

 faint and ever receding circle where the 

 sight pauses, while the thought travels 

 unimpeded on its pathless way? There 

 lies the untamed world which brooks no 

 human control, and preserves the primeval 

 solitude of the epochs before men came; 

 there are the elemental forces mingling 

 and commingling in eternal fellowships and 

 rivalries. There the winds sweep, and the 

 storms marshal their shadows as on the 

 first day; there, too, the sunlight sleeps 

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