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his highest tendencies, the full recognition of the bond of 

 humanity, of the community of the whole human race, with 

 the sentiments snd sympathies which spring therefrom, 

 becomes a leading principle m the history of man." ( 443 ) 



"With these words which derive their charm from the 

 depth of the feelings from whence they sprang let a 

 brother be permitted to close the general description of the 

 phenomena of the universe. From the remotest nebulae, 

 and from the revolving double stars, we have descended to 

 the minutest animal forms of sea and land, and to the 

 delicate vegetable germs which clothe the naked precipice 

 of the ice-crowned mountain summit. Laws partially 

 known have enabled us in some degree to arrange these 

 phenomena; other laws of a more mysterious nature prevail 

 in the highest sphere of the organic world, in that of man 

 \vith his varied conformation, the creative intellectual 

 energies with which he is endowed, and the languages which 

 have sprung therefrom. We have thus reached the point 

 at which a higher order of being is presented to us, and the 

 reaim of mind opens to the view : here, therefore, the physi- 

 cal description of the universe terminates ; it marks tha 

 limit, which it does not pass. 



