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want. We read a book and we are 

 only conscious of one line or one sen- 

 tence at a time. We listen to a musical 

 creation or admire an exhibition of art, 

 and we only hear a few harmonies, or 

 see a few details of one picture, more 

 distinctly at the time, and so on. How 

 much richer would not our life be if we 

 could think the book from beginning to 

 end at once, hear the harmony of the 

 entire oratorio, now focus the beauties 

 in smallest details of the whole picture- 

 gallery to one point. It even dazzles 

 our spiritual eye if we enlarge the 

 range of such a rich intuition to en- 

 compass not only our nearest environ- 

 ments but our whole earth or possibly 

 our entire solar system, and yet we 

 have only taken one step on a road 

 that has no end. Our solar system is 

 only an insignificant point among those 

 innumerable worlds that form the 

 Milky Way, beyond which the astrono- 

 mers surmise the existence of other 

 hosts of stars without limit. If we 

 now could share in life at every point 



