BIRD, BEAST AND HUNTER. 
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or 
so far as habits went. But habits are not all the man, and 
they were most sublime rites, the incense of which went up 
from beneath those truest temples—the sacred forests! At 
such a period the strong contrasts are exhibited. The brute- 
man literally wrestles with his brute prototype for glory, 
“spoyle,” and food; while the higher man sits with grey 
venerable poll beneath the leafy shadows of his sacred place, 
musing beside a rude stone altar; or on the plain, upturns 
the white calm of his time-beleagured front towards the stars, 
in still communion with their mysteri-s. 
Then comes that finer union of the animal and spiritual lives, 
when the science of Eld Egypt—the God-revealed legislation 
of the Hebrew—the magic of the far wondrous East—the 
Jonian polish, and the Roman sternness, had, in their gradual 
progress towards the West, so greatly modified human devel- 
opment, that, out of such combinations, chivalry sprung forth. 
This is that most generous balance of the two natures, which 
even at the present day more nearly appeals to our nobier 
instincts; and 
“In rough magnificence arrayed, 
When ancient chivalry displayed 
