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sense of Responsibility in Man." And again : 

 " Duty ! wondrous thought, that workest neither 

 by fond insinuation, flattery, nor by any 

 threat, but merely by holding up thy naked 

 'law in the soul,' and so extorting for thyself 

 always reverence, if not always obedience; 

 before whom all appetites are dumb, however 

 secretly they rebel ; WHENCE THY ORIGINAL ? " 



Enough. Nature is a hierarchy, and the 

 head is Man. " Mind, language, civilization, 

 worship the will to determine, the tongue to 

 speak, the hand to do these, in their boundless 

 purport, are all awanting till the Creator plants 

 upon the scene the solitary owner of the Perfect 

 Brain. Named in one word, all these are 

 wisdom; and Man, ' thinker of God's thoughts 

 after Him/ is, among uncounted myriads of 

 lower existences, on this earth the Only 

 Wise." l 



" This universe is not an accidental cavity, in 

 which an accidental dust has been accidentally 

 swept into heaps for the accidental evolution 

 of the majestic spectacle of organic and in- 

 organic life. That majestic spectacle is a 

 spectacle as plainly for the eye of reason as any 



1 "The Three Barriers," p. 96. 



