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NATURE S APPEAL. 
great power which tends to perfection, and if lower than reason 
are also in some respects higher. They, at least, are beyond any 
question of right or wrong ; they have been fashioned during 
untold ages in the great workshop of Nature, and are part of our 
very being. If this appeal to us is, as I believe it to be, a voice 
echoing from dim, forgotten ages during which the foundations 
of our destiny were being laid, one can, more than ever, exclaim 
with Carlyle, " Welcome, thou great Nature ! Savage, but not 
unkind, unmotherly ; sing thou to me, O mother, thy mystic 
everlasting lullaby-song, and let all the rest be far." 
