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they have a progeny which may rise to any numbers. At the points 

 where they unite, they must of course fit; to fit, they must be of 

 cup and ball construction; in other words, there must be a likeness 

 or likingness between them, and this likeness, when studied, becomes 

 a science of analogies. When the marriages of a dozen sciences 

 have been observed, they all begin to group upon each other, and 

 the thought strikes us that all the sciences fit to each, or that analogy 

 is universal. Everything likes everything. This sends our curiosity 

 abroad, and we come upon the thought of universal organization, 

 and then we find that certain parts of nature, as vegetables, beasts, 

 and men, are shining lights of organization; that flesh, for instance, 

 loves its parts so well, and that they embrace so closely, that no- 

 thing can come between them without pain, or destruction. Thus 

 we only get to individuality as the result of a compact of sentient 

 beings whom God has so closely linked in liking, that they cannot 

 be sundered without mischief. The scientific individuality thus ob- 

 tained, illustrates our common individuality, and we are constrained 

 to think is a true statement of one part of its ground. 



From this point our thoughts become organic, and we are sure to 

 make organization or association into a rule of judgment, and a 

 method of discovery; insisting, by faith and science, that the whole 

 world is covertly what the highest things in it are manifestly. We 

 have found that the best and most speaking bodies are disposed in 

 mutual order and helpfulness; we dictate downwards, from the 

 heights of nature, that this is the case with the other parts; and 

 that their imperfection consists in nothing else, than the fact that 

 they do not so openly express the everlasting order. The plants are 

 poor timid things which cannot tell us what they have in them ; the 

 beasts have better voices; and mankind are different over again, pre- 

 cisely according as they can display that association and organization 

 which is the lesson of the whole. The best men indeed are still 

 markedly individual ; but why ? Only because they are the general 

 officers of regiments or armies, and not because they have no world 

 under them. They are dependent on much larger and broader bases 

 than other people. The apex of the pyramid has a free point, but 

 of all the parts, it rests at last the most heavily upon the ground. 



Knowledge displays the associative power in its width not less 

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