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he can see by faith, through all the abysses and the 

 ages, not merely 



« Hands, 

 From out the darkness, shaping man ; " 



but above them a living loving countenance, human 

 and yet divine ; and can hear a voice which said at 

 first, " Let us make man in our image ;" and hath 

 said since then, and says for ever and for ever, 

 "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the 

 world." 



But now, friend, who listenest, perhaps instructed, 

 and at least amused — if, as Professor Harvey well 

 says, the simpler animals represent, as in a glass, the 

 scattered organs of the higher races, which of your 

 organs is represented by that "sca'd man's head," 

 which the Devon children more gracefully, yet with 

 less adherence to plain likeness, call "mermaid's 

 head,"* which we picked up just now on Paignton 

 Sands ? Or which, again, by its more beautiful little 

 congener,"!- five or six of which are adhering tightly to 

 the slab before us, a baU covered with delicate spines 



* Amphidotus cordatus. t Echinus miliaris, Plate VII. 



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