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Follow the radius up into the next concentric circle, 

 and we see this law working to finer and sublimer issues 

 in man's moral nature. We have glanced at what the 

 mind has done for and through his physical faculties 

 and being ; how that being has reacted upon the mind, 

 and kept all its capacities at work in procuring new 

 delight to the eye, ear, palate, and all the senses that 

 yearned for enjoyment. We have noticed how the 

 inside and outside world acted upon his reasoning 

 powers in the dawn of creation; how slowly they 

 mastered the simplest facts and phenomena of life in 

 and around him ; how slowly they expanded, through 

 the intervening centuries, to their present development. 

 The mind is the central personage in the trinity of 

 man's being; linking the mortal and immortal to its 

 life and action ; vitalising the body with intelligence, 

 until every vein, muscle, and nerve, and function 

 thrills and moves to the impulse of thought ; vitalising 

 the soul with the vigorous activities of reason, giving 

 hands as well as wings to its hopes, faiths, loves, and 

 aspirations ; giving a faculty of speech, action, and 

 influence to each, and play to all the tempers and 

 tendencies of its moral nature. Thus all the influences 

 that the mind could inhale from the material world 

 through man's physical being, and all it could draw 

 out of the depths of Divine revelation, were the dew 



