ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



duplicate the vaster history of the human 

 race, working out the great plan, which 



"Drew as a bubble from old infamies 

 And fen-pools of the past 

 The shy and many-colored soul of man," 



as Mr. George Stirling so exquisitely puts 

 it. 



Studying the ever-broadening empire of 

 thought, from its beginning in the "fen- 

 pools of the past," and remembering that no 

 one has yet discovered a limit to the possi- 

 bilities of the mind's achievements, it seems 

 quite conceivable that some day it will con- 

 quer interplanetary space as it has already 

 put a girdle around our own globe. That 

 done, we may look for thoughts expanded 

 from the provinciality of a single world to 

 interplanetary breadth and scope. From 

 this possibility, become an actuality, others 

 will as surely follow, until man's thoughts, 

 enlarged from their present childish com- 

 prehension of divine thought, shall meet and 

 merge with those of God. 



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