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only lie who speaks in the tones of the Court can be 

 heard far and long. 



I sing to her who sits in white, 

 The brightest of earth's latest light ; 

 Her throne an entire jasper stone 

 Where earth and heaven meet in one ; 



End of the future's vistas vast, 

 Best birth of ages, — best and last, 

 In knowledge ripe, in virtue whole ; 

 Ideal of perfected soul. 



Far sits her form now, — ages far, 

 Her holy face seems yet a star; 

 But, as the ages to her run, 

 The star enlargeth to a sun. 



She beckons me, and I am awed ; 

 She is my Muse ; she is like God. 

 Her look doth Time with God infuse 

 God, God, God is the only Muse. 



[Applause.] 



THE LECTURE. 



If chemical combinations account for living tis- 

 sues, what accounts for the chemical combinations? 

 [Applause.] 



Let science never cease to make petitioning signals 

 at all doors where the law of cause and effect puts up 

 bells and knockers. To him that knocketh in the 

 name of that law, it shall be opened. Again and 

 again we are told by materialistic science, that some 

 doors are not to be approached ; that some laws are 

 incomprehensible ; that it is absolutely beyond the 



