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nature this side of the Infinite, this everlasting law of 

 co- working rules the ratio of progress and development. 

 In all the concentric spheres strung on the radius 

 measured by these extremes, there is this same co-acting 

 of internal and external forces. And mind, of man or 

 angel, guides and governs both. Not a flower that 

 ever breathed on 'earth, not one that ever blushed in 

 Eden, could open all its hidden treasures of beauty 

 without the co-working of man's mind and taste. No 

 animal that ever bowed its neck to his yoke, or gave 

 him labor, milk or wool, could come to the full develop- 

 ment of its latent vitalities and symmetries without the 

 help of his thought and skill. The same law obtains 

 in his own physical nature. Mind has made it what 

 it is to-day, as compared with the wild features and 

 habits of its aboriginal condition. Mind has worked 

 for five thousand years upon its fellow-traveller through 

 time, to fit it more and more fully for the companion- 

 ship. It was delivered over to her charge naked, with 

 its attributes and faculties as latent and dormant as 

 those of the wild rose or dahlia. Through all the ages 

 long, she has worked upon its development ; educating 

 its tastes ; taming its appetites ; refining its sensi- 

 bilities ; multiplying and softening its enjoyments ; 

 giving to every sense a new capacity and relish of 

 delight ; cultivating the ear for music, and ravishing it 

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