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correlation and conservation of forces is pointed to 

 by the laws of the mind. The poets have always 

 said it, and all men have felt it; why await scien- 

 tific proof ? The spectroscope has revealed the uni- 

 versality of chemistry, that the farthermost star, as 

 compared Avith our earth, is hone of her hone and 

 flesh of her flesh. This is a poetic truth as well as 

 a scientiflc, and is valuable to all men, because the 

 germ of it always lay in their minds. It is a com- 

 fort to know for a certainty that these elements are 

 cosmic; that matter is the same, and spirit, or law, 

 the same everywhere i, and that, if we were to visit 

 the remotest worlds, we should not find the men 

 rooted to the ground and the trees walking about, 

 but life on the same terms as here. The main facts 

 of natural history also lie in the main direction of 

 our natural faculties, and are proper and welcome to 

 all men. So much of botany, so much of biology, 

 so much of geology, of chemistry, of natural phi- 

 losophy, as lies within the sphere of legitimate ob- 

 servation, or within the plane of man's natural 

 knowledge, is capable of being absorbed by litera- 

 ture, and heightened to new significance. 



