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tiful being created to meet these awakening yearnings 

 of his nature ; then the first outflow and interchange of 

 human love. The narrative brings us to the next stage 

 of the sentiment. Sin and sorrow afflict, but unite, 

 both hearts in the saddest experience of humanity. 

 They are driven out of the Eden of their first condi- 

 tion, but their very sufferings and fears re-Eden their 

 mutual attachments in the very thorns of their troubles 

 and sorrow. Then another being, of their own flesh, 

 heir to their changed lot, and to these attachments, is 

 added to their companionship. The first child's face 

 that heaven or earth ever saw, opened its baby eyes on 

 them and smiled in the light of their parental love. 

 The history goes on. In process of time, there is a 

 family of families, called a community, embracing hun- 

 dreds of individuals connected by ties of blood so at- 

 tenuated that they possess no binding influence. Com- 

 mon interests, affinities, and sentiments supply the 

 place of family relationship, and make laws of amity 

 and equity for them as a population. Next we have 

 a community of communities, or a commonwealth of 

 these individual populations, generally called a nation. 

 Here is a larger lesson for the moral nature. Here 

 are thousands and tens of thousands of men who never 

 saw each other's faces. Will this expanded orb of 

 humanity revolve around the same centre as the first 



