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opinion or thought at all ; but it is the whole living present hour, 

 standing on the pier of the whole past, and about to embark with 

 cheerful courage upon the unknown welcome future. This is the 

 fortune of life and action, and the price of the sciences ; nay, the 

 reaper of which science is the gleaner. This is the bond of times 

 and the principle of toleration. This makes learning humble, and 

 simple natures great. 



ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



p. 300. 

 The reverse of the biblical revelation of God as a Divine Man, is the philoso- 

 pher's notion of God from physical immensity, as an indistinct being whose 

 sensorium is space. " Jupiter est quodcunqne vides^ &c, &c. The modern 

 astronomical sublime, in which the greatness of the Creator is deduced from 

 the mileage of the universe, and God is increased by naughts according to quad- 

 rillions, quintillions, and sextillions, is like the child's notion of a great man or a 

 great book, which amounts of course to a giant, or an imperial folio. It is not, 

 however, by piling Ossa upon Pelion, that divine size is gained : the way to it is 

 by common sense following Scripture, and recognizing the intenseness of those 

 human qualities which are the greatness of man, and to which matter is a ser- 

 vant, for they say to it, " Go, and it goeth ; Come, and it eometh." So likewise 

 omnipresence is purely divine, and has not to do with space, but with wisdom ; 

 in which latter space itself is but a nook. The biblical or human view is then 

 according to the uprightness of reason ; whereas the notion of the Godhead from 

 space is an infinite sprawl, reason down wallowing on its knees and nose. 



p. 301. 

 We here take occasion to warn the reader against the fallacy of the notion 

 that man is an infinite who has been degraded to the human form, when the fact 

 is that he is dust, which is ever being raised by God through and in the human 

 tbrm. For as we show in the text, the human form is mind, life, and infinity. 



p. 314. 

 The humanizing function of the arts is indeed a phrase which admits and suc- 

 cinctly conveys the whole of this argument. 



p. 319. 

 We may regard this view of the human frame as the doctrine of the freedom 

 of man,, for it opens avenues into all expanses, and sinks its shaft into liberty, 

 which is the principle of sufficient space. The dead microscopic view, on the 

 other hand, is the doctrine of cells or prisons, not indeed unfit for a limit below, 

 but which ought to be kept below, lest the mind, tied to what it contemplates, 

 should become a scientific bottle imp in the cases of its own museum. 



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