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elements which so love each other, and rush together, as do the parts 

 of man. Pale philosophy, indeed, has attempted to draw a sharp 

 cut of spells between the round pellucid intellect, and the face of 

 which it is the jewel. But as it sits in its dissecting-room with plate- 

 fuls of human eyes before it, we recognize in the amount of its 

 victims the exact number of its failures. 



We might pursue this thread of truth through every other faculty ; 

 and we should then record, that goodness, virtue, honor, bravery, 

 industry, and all the names that we revere, are man and the organs 

 of man, and that out of him and his they are nothing. But it is 

 enough to indicate one or two cases, for these, as the eyes and fore- 

 head of the rest, bring with them the predicates entire of the human 

 world, and marshal them into its form. We now, then, pass on to 

 the sciences, to notice their impartial teaching in spheres where man 

 seems to cease, and to be environed by apparently intractable, that 

 is to say, inhuman forms. 



It is not necessary to have recourse to any ideal state of the 

 sciences; but their present condition serves to show, that humanity 

 by its principles extends through the realms of beasts and fishes, 

 herbs and stones, and even through winds and the fluid worlds. For 

 the instinct of science in all these departments, drills their subjects 

 with reference to order, the ends of which order are, mind in the one 

 case and matter in the other — mind, the intellectual plenum of the 

 human form — and matter, the stages of nature that lead from her 

 deadness up to that life which is the perfect man. The schemes of 

 the atheists are obedient to this roll-call, for otherwise they would 

 not cohere into schemes ; their vile scientific cunning can exist on 

 no other terms. The difference between them and the religious 

 world is, that they have the task of making man out of the ground 

 by their own dust-strife, whereas the others hold that he is ready 

 made out of that very dust by the breath of Jehovah God : but in 

 both cases the dust is recognized as a fit material for building into 

 the plan of the human form. There is then an admitted reference 

 of the dust to man, and this, when put by experience through its 

 degrees, constitutes the order of the sciences. 



With regard to the organic sciences, the case is clear : their aim 



