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NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
Mental and 
physical 
lmitations. 
after hour, he droned his way; but the en- 
compassing arch offered no exit. Ah! how 
the blue arch of heaven closes in upon the 
winged flights of the Buddhas, the Mahomets, 
and the Platos! They may drone on in circles 
beneath it for ages, but the human mind will 
never break through and beyond it. Man is 
not different from the other creations of nature. 
His lines are cast in curves, and he glides along 
them from the cradle to the grave, uncon- 
sciously obeying the universal law. He thinks 
his movement progress, but is it anything more 
than change ? His is a different segment from 
the one his father traced, but is it not a part of 
the same circle? Nature never designed that 
the human should be exempt from the uni- 
versal law. The circle binds him as the world 
spins. His deeds and his thoughts stretch 
upward, as flowers spring aspiringly toward 
the sun, but ever and always they are curved 
in and turned back upon themselves, sinking 
into the earth mould from whence they rose. 
