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without regard to the advantages and the honors which 

 it may procure him, is justified in believing that he has 

 entered the threshold of the sanctuary of science, and 

 he will certainly, by continued efforts, penetrate to its 

 sacred depths. It is then he feels how full of thought is 

 all this marvellous world ; it needs not then poetic fables 

 to people for him every glen and fountain, and wood 

 and hill, with its appropriate genius ; for he kiiows and 

 feels, as none other can, the spiritual which is around 

 him ; and deep in his inmost soul rests forever the un- 

 shaken faith, that on lonely mountain-top, or barren 

 shore, in the deep recesses of the silent wood, or on the 

 boundless expanse of the never-tiring ocean, or the world- 

 islands of unfathomable space, there dwells a Power and 

 a Presence, dimly felt, it may be, through the gross me- 

 dium of sense — but the true philosopher, with hopeful, 

 trustful confidence, awaits the dispersion of the earth- 

 mist, knowing that in God's own time, the twilight of 

 conjecture must yield to the unclouded noontide of 

 knowledge; 



