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turmoil and noise of its own machinery may, even while working 

 healthily, entirely mask and overwhelm them. But if we with- 

 draw ourselves from time to time out of the smoke and tarnish of 

 the furnace, we can hear plainly enough that, howsoever the engine 

 may have come together, and into its present being, the engineer, 

 at all events, is no result of any processes of accretion and agglo- 

 meration. Science, business, and pleasure are but correlatives of 

 the machinery in its different applications and activities; we are 

 something besides all this, manifesting ourselves to others in the 

 decisions of our will, and manifesting ourselves to ourselves in our 

 aspirations and consciousness of responsibility. 



* And e'en as these are well and firmly fixed, 

 In dignity of being we ascend.' 



I have heard this line of argumentation likened to an attempt to 

 defend Sebastopol by balloons. * Whilst you are in the clouds, 

 your city will be taken beneath your feet.' But a position, though 

 airy, may yet be impregnable. There are those present who will 

 recollect how the highest placed forts of that town were never 

 taken, but continued to the last to answer shot for shot, and shell 

 for shell, to the Allies. The attacking forces knew not the strength 

 of those north forts till they entered them, but when they entered 

 them, they entered them as friends. 



