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She does indeed put her symbolic language on 

 every stone in her temple. But though the build- 

 ing is perfect to the eye of the great Architect, it is 

 a perfection of relation, and not of position. It 

 seems chaos to man until that relation is perceived, 

 as it existed in the divine Mind, and is manifested 

 in his works. The blocks are scattered where they 

 were fashioned by the Creator on every continent, 

 the islands of the sea, and beneath the waters. 

 Their true place is written in their structure : it is 

 repeated in every change, from the unfolding of the 

 germ to the perfect being. But it is the gathering 

 up of these scattered fragments, so that they shall be 

 perfect to man, as they formed a perfect whole to 

 the Omnipresent eye in the first creation it is this 

 entering in to the thought of God by the army of 

 naturalists, that is the great triumph of intellect. 

 And that this has been done, in the main, in the 

 present natural systems of classification, w r e have no 

 more doubt than we have that the sun is the center 

 of the solar system, and that the true order of the 

 planets is now known. It is this search, this grad- 

 ual unfolding of the great Master's thought, that has 



