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converting them also into mediums of intercourse with things 

 unseen, existing within and around us. But let our imagina- 

 tive regions, which in all but material substance may be re- 

 gions of reality, be never peopled by the dark appalling 

 visions of a distempered fancy. Let us, rather, through the 

 visible millions which fill the earth and sky with insect music, 

 be led to a pleasant but chastening consciousness of the pre- 

 sence of those "millions of spiritual creatures" which 



" Walk the earth 

 Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep ;" 



and whose appointed office, besides that of "singing their 

 Great Creator," may be to fill with harmony the moral ele- 

 ments which make our world of mind. 



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