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with the concord of sweet sounds ; cultivating the eye 

 to drink in the glorious beauty of the external world, 

 then adding to natural sceneries ten thousand pictures 

 of mountain, valley, river, man, angel and scenes in 

 human and heaven's history, painted by the thought- 

 instructed hand; cultivating the palate to the most 

 exquisite sensibilities, and exploring all the zones for 

 luxuries to gratify them ; cultivating the fine finger- 

 nerves to such perception that they can feel the pulse 

 of sleeping notes of music; cultivating the still finer 

 organism that catches the subtle odors on the wing, 

 and sends their separate or mingled breathings through 

 every vein and muscle from head to foot. 



The same law holds good in the development of 

 mind. It has now reached such an altitude, and it 

 shines with such lustre, that our imagination can hardly 

 find the way down to the morning horizon of its life, 

 and measure its scope and power in the dim twilight of 

 its first hours in time. The simple facts of its first 

 condition would now seem to most men as exaggerated 

 fancies, if given in the simplest forms of truthful state- 

 ment. With all the mighty faculties to which it has 

 come ; with its capacity to count, name, measure and 

 weigh stars that Adam, nor Moses, nor Solomon ever 

 saw ; with all the forces of nature it has subdued to the 

 service of man, it cannot tell what simplest facts of the 



