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NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
Significance 
of beauty. 
a material phenomenon, and modern creeds 
may discard its worship as idolatrous ; but 
priest and scientist, in common with all hu- 
manity, have felt its splendor and known its 
beauty. Was beauty then made for ashes, and 
has splendor no significance? The aspiring 
soul will not so account them. It believes that 
He who stretched out the heavens as a cur- 
tain and laid the beams of His chambers in the 
waters makes Himself manifest in the splendor 
of His light, and in the beauty of its reflection 
upon the morning sky. 
