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scheme is necessarily God's. Do we not foresee, that history from 

 this point of view will unwrite itself, and proceeding by the wisdom 

 of erasures, find that its grand task is done for it, and that Old and 

 New Testaments are its truth. For when all is said, the complica- 

 tion returns at last to simple pieces of good and evil. Paradise lost, 

 missed, and regained, are the main concerns. This is the upshot of 

 the birth, education, career and end of the "Grand Man" upon 

 earth ; and writing has to show, that this is already written, for this 

 among other reasons, that there is no man could write it. And so 

 from the garrulity of old experience, and after the fag of unroll- 

 ings and discoveries, we find that we are right exactly where God 

 says to us : "I told ye so from the beginning/' 



But if the doctrine of the human form brings unity to our con- 

 ceptions of mankind, and sees the terrene man as a globe of socie- 

 ties and churches, its effects upon moral philosophy are not less 

 important, for it embraces kindreds and tongues in one fraternal 

 whole. The human is the form of function, and function is diver- 

 sity of act founded upon aptitude. If the race be indeed a man, 

 what vast differences are needed in parts and individuals, to make 

 up his body of such various wants ! The members must consent to 

 differ, as the head differs from the feet, or the liver from the fingers. 

 They must also consent to agree and succor, as closely and quickly 

 as the bodily commonwealth itself. They must further know that 

 they are bound together in a common lot of health or disease, and that 

 there is no wholeness until the entire system is well. In this light 

 the doctrine of the human form is a standing policy of regeneration 

 to man, and sends out the sound to bring in the sick, that their evil 

 spread not to the frame. Here, in short, we have the doctrine of 

 fraternity, sympathy, help, or the foundation of ethics. 



I also deem that the mystery of Christ comes more home to the 

 scientific mind through consideration of the same doctrine, though 

 far be it from me to attempt to base Christianity upon inductions, 

 when it stands on a divine rock of truth. But the mind, which does 

 not know its claims, seems a little advanced towards them, by find- 

 ing that the human form is no accident among things, but is the 

 ruling soul of the world, and that to enter it by divine means 

 amounts on these principles to a reconstruction of the universes of 



