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each other only, but of ministering to beings of a higher 

 order than their own, of creating not motions alone, but 

 the most marvellous sensations. To the contemplative 

 mind, dwelling on, and alive to, the inexpressible won- 

 derfulness of the exactness of the meeting of two natures 

 so diverse, the exquisiteness of the adjustment to each 

 other of entities so widely apart, the ineffable beauty 

 with which the one, passing over an immeasurable space, 

 acts on the other, kindles splendours for it, makes music 

 to it, exhilarates and feasts it, it seems the most impossible 

 of all things that anything but a divine intelligence can 

 account for such phenomena. 



5. Their action is perfect. Seeing, hearing, tasting, 

 smelling are performed in a manner which nothing can 

 excel. The clearness and cleanness of all sensations in 

 persons of healthy constitution are crystalline. Beholding 

 an extensive prospect, no blanks appear, no blotches 

 offend. There is no dimness of vision. There is in 

 ordinary circumstances nothing dazzling and intolerable. 

 Light is sweet to the eye, and it is a pleasant thing to 

 behold the sun. Who can paint like nature. Colours 

 are set before us with a perfection which reaches the 

 suprernest beauty. Not a flower blooms but shows 

 touches, hues, streaks, and stains that make manifest 

 the hand from which they come, the mind to which 

 their tasteful loveliness is due. There is no dulness in 

 sounds nor ordinarily anything of an overpowering nature. 

 The vast multitude are possessed of a sense of hearing, to 

 which common sounds are splendidly distinct. Music 

 knows tones the grandest and sweetest. When a great 

 instrumentalist, instrument, and orchestra render the 

 masterpieces of genius, perceptive natures listening are 

 regaled by cluster on cluster of harmonies, in which 

 neither blank nor discord finds a place. Balmy and 



