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we feel as if all nature were converging into one 

 single point, and that one more look would reveal 

 to us the first, the immaterial spring which was 

 touched by the Almighty hand, in what was no 

 time and yet included all time, and in what was no 

 space and yet included all space. But the frailty 

 of flesh is in the eye, the dimness of matter is upon 

 it, and we cannot see. Yet here we can infer that 

 the " glory to be revealed" shall as far exceed all 

 the glories of all the material works of God as the 

 incomprehensible universe exceeds the stretch of 

 the human hand. But though we cannot push 

 our analysis any further than observation and 

 rational inference would bear us out; and thus 

 cannot approach either the infinitely great or the 

 infinitely small, so near as to have even a concep- 

 tion of them farther than that they can differ from 

 each other as material things differ ; and that any 

 or both are perfectly capable of co-existing with 

 an infinitude of knowledge knowledge or intel- 

 ligence, which is one and indivisible in its essence, 

 but of which the manifestations can have no limit, 

 and which cannot be divided in any other way 

 than through its manifestations, either in space or 

 in time. 



There are many places of the world where, if a 

 stranger were to come at certain seasons, he would 

 never imagine that the fields would be clothed 

 with vegetation. A native of the green Savannahs 

 of America, coming to England in winter, or after 

 the fields were ploughed and the seeds sown and 

 covered, would think it mockery if he were to be 

 told that it was from these black wastes that the 

 people of England reaped their bread. So also if 

 one unacquainted with the changes of the seasons 

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