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NATURE FOB ITS OWN SAKE 



Significanct 

 of beauty. 



a material phenomenon, and modern creeds 

 may discard its worship as idolatrous ; but 

 priest and scientist, in common with all hu- 

 manity, have felt its splendor and known its 

 beauty. Was beauty then made for ashes, and 

 has splendor no significance ? The aspiring 

 soul will not so account them. It believes that 

 He who stretched out the heavens as a cur- 

 tain and laid the beams of His chambers in the 

 waters makes Himself manifest in the splendor 

 of His light, and in the beauty of its reflection 

 upon the morning sky. 



