LOVE, THE SUPREME MOVER. 
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Happiness is for each creature the integral and continuous devel- 
opment of all its faculties, of all its natural attractions. 
Liberty, which tends to happiness, is obedience to the law of 
attraction. 
The satellite is intimately persuaded that it only follows its own 
will when it traverses the orbit which attraction has assigned to it. 
The lover, too, does only what he wills when he blindly obeys the 
caprices of his mistress. Wherefore, the people of lovers is the 
only one which deserves the name of a free people, as being the 
only one which obeys a government of its choice. 
God has proportioned attractions to the destinies of beings, and 
to guide His creatures toward the pole of this destiny. He has given 
them a double compass : pleasure, which indicates to them when 
they are in the right way, and pain, which warns them that they 
depart from it. 
The heavens declare the sanctity of passion, and instruct the 
earth to reverence Love ; Love, whose power bears the planet 
through space, and designs the symbolic ellipsis round the focus of 
attraction, and causes joy to shine upon the surface of globes 
emerging from darkness, to bathe in the floods of the ocean of 
light. 
The poets, who half understand God, have compared i\iQ dawn, 
which tints the east with rose, and dissipates the night, to the ra- 
diant smile of beauty, which chases care from the heart and prom- 
ises a day of happiness. The poets have spoken well. As the lov- 
er dresses in his most beautiful robes, and glosses his hair, and per- 
fumes his language for the visit of love, thus every morning the 
Earth indues her richest attire to meet the rays of her star be- 
loved, and displays to please him an extravagant luxury. 
It is the same fire of Love which at this hour is reflected from 
the diamonds of the dewy robes of the meadows, and which lights 
the golden hearths of heaven. It is the same necessity to love 
which wakes song melodies under the leaves, and opens the em- 
balmed corollas of flowers to drink the aromas of light, and to 
shower on the airs their incense. 
Flowers and harvests, perfumes and joyous songs, burst forth at 
the breath of love. Those endless joys, those inefiable harmonies 
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