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I see him going forth over the face of the earth 

 and bringing all things into subjection to himself. 

 The beasts of the field are conquered and made to 

 serve him. By his hands forests are leveled, and the 

 soil is made to yield her increase in a thousand useful 

 fruits and grains. By his hands cities rise, railroads 

 " annihilate space," telegraphs dispense with time, 

 and ships bridge the oceans. 



I see him leading in captivity at his chariot-wheels 

 all the forces of nature, and sending forth the deadly 

 lightning on messages of mercy and love. 



I press to my ear an instrument which he has in- 

 vented, and recognize his voice through a thousand 

 miles. Through the phonograph I may hear the 

 songs of the departed, or listen to the embalmed elo- 

 quence of orators who have been dead a thousand 

 years. 



•I see this man reaching out in all directions, and 

 with conscious intelligence laying hold on all kinds of 

 matter and all the forces of nature, on infinite worlds 

 and infinite time and infinite space, and binding them 

 together into a harmonious universe. 



I hear him declare that behind all that human eye 

 has ever seen, or human ear has ever heard, there is 

 one Power which has made all and which works in 

 and through all. In a word, I see in man a body most 

 intricate in the construction and arrangement of its 

 parts, all delicately adjusted to each other so that 

 they work in perfect harmony; self-regulating, capa- 

 ble of repairing themselves as rapidly as they are 

 worn out, and of making known their need of rest; a 

 body which, in structure and functions, is highly 

 adapted to the wants of the soul that dwells within. 



I see in him a soul of many powers, of unbounded 

 desires, a seeker after infinite knowledge, a believer 

 in the infinite and the eternal, with a hope that 



