RUMINATIONS 



draw the sustenance from it. We must go to the 

 plant, or to the animal that went to the plant, for 

 our sustenance. 



The secondary men go to books and creeds and 

 institutions for their religion, but the original men, 

 having the divine chlorophyll, go to Nature herself. 

 The stars in their courses teach them. The earth 

 inspires them. 



V. THE COSMIC HARMONY 



The order and the harmony of the Cosmos is not 

 like that which man produces or aims to produce 

 in his work — the order and harmony that will give 

 him the best and the quickest results; but it is an 

 astronomic order and harmony which flows inevit- 

 ably from the circular movements and circular 

 forms to which the Cosmos tends. Revolution and 

 evolution are the two feet upon which creation goes. 

 All natural forms strive for the spherical. The 

 waves on the beach curve and roll and make the 

 pebbles round. From the drops of rain and dew to 

 the mighty celestial orbs one law prevails. Nature 

 works to no special ends; she works to all ends; and 

 her harmony results from her universality. The 

 comets are apparently celestial outlaws, but they 

 all have their periodic movements, and make their 

 rounds on time. Collisions in the abysses of space, 

 which undoubtedly take place, look like dishar- 

 monies and failures of order, as they undoubtedly 



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