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is best and most glorious, most beseeming the goodness 

 of His nature, is to be attributed to His will. It is 

 impious to seek this in the blood of insects, in the 

 mummied corpse, in the foam of the epileptic, under 

 the shaking feet of murderers, or in the melancholy 

 mysteries of vile necromancers ; 1 it must be sought 

 rather in the inviolable, intemerate law of nature, in 

 the religion of a mind directed duly by that law, in 

 the splendour of the sun, in the beauty of the things 

 which are brought forth from this our parent, after His 

 true image, as expressed bodily in the beauty of those 

 innumerable living things, which, in the immeasurable 

 sweep of the one heaven, shine and live, have sense 

 and intelligence, and sing praises to the One, the 

 highest and best." 2 



1 Allusions to practices of the Black Art. 2 Op. Lat. i. 2. p. 316. 



