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redbreast, and the wagtail — you who said so quaintly to the gos- 
siping swallows that disturbed your flock, Shut your bills a little, 
pretty swallows, my sisters, that I may teach these brave fellows 
the word of God. 
divine order of social relations, and a destiny proportional to the attrac- 
tions of man and the creatures allied with him. 
Work, thought, investigation, integral exploration, untiring activity in 
production, and the conciliation of the interests of the laborer with the per- 
fection of the product — such is the only worship which can be proper or 
acceptable during the periods of poverty and ignorance. Harmonic wor- 
ship, thanksgiving, must wait until we have something to enjoy ; we — not 
the few rich and highly gifted, but the immense mass of mankind, until 
poverty, fraud, oppression, carnage, vitiation of climates, generated dis- 
eases, vicious circles, general selfishness, and duplicity of action shall have 
been replaced by their opposite goods : general riches, justice, liberty, 
peace, and industrial armies for those of destruction, restoration of cli- 
mates, extinction of diseases, and new developments of vital force in our 
senses and affections ; — until universal harmony and the spirit of collective 
devotion replace general selfishness and duplicity of action ; and associa- 
tion, with liberty in love, the isolated family, and permanent, arbitrary, 
exclusive marriage. 
The bird first drinks and then turns up its eyes to the Sun ; the babe 
must satisfy itself at the breast before it will understand its mother if she 
asks a kiss. Instinct worships only after it has enjoyed — never before ; its 
only prayer is the struggle to attain. 
In the days of Harmony the divine incarnation in nature and humanity 
will be effected. We shall then no longer be absurd enough to worship an 
abstraction under the name of God, so long exploited by the priestcraft of 
all nations. Material properties, revealing to the eyes of our soul their 
spiritual correspondences ; the Sujnt, radiant centre and dispenser of heat, 
light, and life to our planetary system, and who manifests to us and in us 
whatever of God we are capable of feeling and knowing, will be the centre 
of theology, whose pentateuch is composed of the natural sciences. Chem- 
istry, Mechanics, Physiology, Psychology, and Therapeutics, and whose 
ceremonial will be composed from all the harmonies of art. 
The spiritual life of the Sun once recognized, that of the planet mothers 
is a natural sequence, and thence the souls or genii which preside over the 
different parts of nature in each planet, and distribute their harmonies un- 
der the general unitary solar providence, forming the hierarchy of causes, 
while instinct reveals to us, as to the good Father Francis, through a daily 
communion of affections, the soul of every beast and plant. 
Then, for the first time, will the poet’s aspiration be fulfilled, ‘‘ To look 
through nature up to nature’s God.” — T r. 
