ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



spiration or a warning, as our own age, 

 through the same agencies, will leave its 

 legacies to the future. 



Not only does language save for us the 

 record of the material progress of every 

 nation, but all its finer garnerings of thought 

 and feeling, preserving in the exquisite vials 

 of poesy the spiritual vintage of the rarest 

 souls of each generation. 



Thus are we made free stockholders in the 

 richest of all corporations, the Cosmic Men- 

 tal Harvesting Company, Unlimited, from 

 which we receive daily, almost hourly, divi- 

 dends, though we know it not. To this great 

 company every one makes some contribution 

 also from his mind, heart, and personality, 

 either strengthening or watering the cosmic 

 stock. Perhaps a more evolved generation 

 than ours may see these mental and emo- 

 tional currents, which, like streams, course 

 from every individuality in their strangely 

 varied and winding channels, starting at an 

 act performed, an idea spoken, written, 

 painted, or sung, or borne on the finer waves 

 of secondary ether. If all these streams of 



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