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figuring of forms of life not human? In a passage 

 vluch I have before me, Schuberlein asserts as his 

 view that the new heavens and the new earth will be 

 such as Agassiz anticipated. 



"As with nature in general, so with natural ob- 

 jects in particular. There will be nothing desert or 

 waste ; but the Divine breath will pervade all things. 

 Vegetation will exist in ideal beauty. Greed and 

 hostility will find no place in the animate realm ; the 

 wolf will ' lie down with the lamb ' in unbroken 

 peace. In general all primitive forms of existence 

 will re-appear in ideal perfection. Man will enjoy 

 nature through all of his senses. The paradise that 

 existed before will be restored after redemption. 



" We are sown in weakness, but we ' rise in power.' 

 There will be no alternation of work and rest, of 

 vigor and weariness ; but we shall subsist in ever-full 

 vigor and enthusiasm. 



" Whereas in this life we consist of the three ele- 

 ments, — body, soul, and spirit, — which may even be 

 separated from each other, in the heavenly life the 

 body and soul will be so pervaded with spirit that 

 the entire human being will present but one unitary 

 spiritual life. 



" When all is thus transfigured, then pure beauty 

 will reign. Heaven is the true home of beauty. 

 For the essence of beauty consists in this — that the 

 life of the soul beams perfectly forth from the body, 

 and that the body thereby sheds a halo of glory back 

 upon the soul. All true art is a yropiny after heaven- 

 ly ideals, and all art-works are anticipations of future 



