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proportions, and the cytoblast and vesicle of the modern ani- 

 mal and vegetable physiologist, yet there is here revealed 

 the intellectual laws by which minds act through aboriginal 

 necessities of spiritual beings, demonstrating that the great 

 intuitions of the analytic and synthetic powers of the soul 

 are held in leading strings by the unalterable logic of the 

 plan of nature and the essential elements of the structure of 

 things. Thus grow the spiritual edifices of man by an archi- 

 tecture whose laws are grave and sublime, grand and beauti- 

 ful as the soul itself, and the plans of the temples are all ar- 

 ranged by antecedent mathematics or geometry of thought, 

 and have their everlasting prototypes scored upon the tablets 

 of the mind. 



Strange is the enchantment, fatal the chain, of that re- 

 morseless basilisk atom ; wonderful, but fell, is the power of 

 despotism of that ideal minimum. Why do the most majestic 

 seekers, the most subtile and exhaustive minds, gravitate 

 toward this gyratory maze? Why have so many of the 

 finest spirits incarnated, so many profoundly attuned souls, 

 brooded in solitude and prayer over the secret of the atom, 

 and made the terrible analysis of the ultimate monad the 

 dream of existence, the criterion of intellectual power? Leu- 

 cippus, Democritus, Kepler, Descartes,* Malpighi,f Lewen- 

 hoeck, Ehrenberg, and Schleiden, have held to the ultimate 

 exploration of the logical details of all things, knowing that 

 thus only could the laws of the universe be discovered, and 

 the last mystery solved. Can the maximum be conceived 



* "Kepler and Descartes were much indebted to the ancient doc- 

 trines of these masters (Leucippus and Democritus) for the explana- 

 tion of the planetary vortices. Bacon remarked that Democritus and 

 Leucippus were so much taken up with the particles of things, as to 

 forget or neglect their structure." Very stupid in Bacon, who could 

 not construct the "Organon" without the same science of analysis, 

 laws of necessary induction, and logical relations of all structures 

 in the "method" of nature. 



f "Malpighi had early in life learned the necessity of making ex- 

 periment the foundation of true philosophy, and was the first to use 

 the microscope in anatomical observations." W. B. 



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