The Nuptial Flight 
motive be first of all dear tous. It may 
only be error, perhaps; but this error 
will not prevent the moment wherein this 
object appears the most admirable to us 
from being the moment wherein we are 
likeliest to perceive its real beauty. The 
beauty we lend it directs our attention to 
its veritable beauty and grandeur, which, 
derived as they are from the relation 
wherein every object must of necessity 
stand to general, eternal, forces and laws, 
might otherwise escape observation. The 
faculty of admiring which an illusion may 
have created within us will serve for the 
truth that must come, be it sooner or 
later. It is with the words, the feelings, 
and ardour created by ancient and imagi- 
nary beauties, that humanity welcomes to- 
day truths which perhaps would have never 
been born, which might not have been 
able to find so propitious a home, had 
these sacrificed illusions not first of all 
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