294 Philosophy of Botany. 



under which alone individuality is granted ; perfection to be 

 alone the attribute of that infinite reality who, divesting him- 

 self of his all-embracing personality, assumed the garb of the 

 cosmos and endowed it with intelligence and love, beauty and 

 justice, to adjust its inequalities in the process of evolution. 



As the dewdrop reposing on the grass blade, glittering in 

 the morning sun, reflects the splendor of the heavens and the 

 image of the horizon, until with the rising day it disappears, 

 dissolving in the air, thus the light of philosophy pictures the 

 image of ideas on a film of protoplasm. 



