FOREWORD 



~"*HE year has turned, and the divine 

 stirrings which herald the resurrection of 

 that body which, in our blindness and our 

 pride, we are pleased to call the lower creation 

 have begun. It will not be long before there 

 will be about us a new heaven and a new 

 earth, amid which the clouds, the cold and 

 the shadows of to-day will be forgotten. A 

 part of the coming glories will be brought to the 

 dull ken of man, who fancies that the eternal 

 forces work only for him, but a far, far greater 

 part will be seen only by the eyes of the count- 

 less millions whom our ignorance and our 

 arrogance declare to be without knowledge or 

 understanding. Who knows ? Is it true that 

 "the soul sleeps in the stone, dreams in the 

 animal, and wakes in the man " ? And is 



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