As Being in the Domain of Logic. 
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the representative image in its mind of its mother’s face bend¬ 
ing over it; all the way along, in its multiplying and more com¬ 
prehensive mental copies it is ever making of the world that 
smites its senses and its other avenues of apprehension. 
“ Shades of his prison house begin to close 
Upon the growing boy. 
“ The youth who daily further from the East 
Must travel, still is Nature’s priest, 
and is getting more of the vision splendid, gathering in more 
and more of the universe to which he was just now a stranger. 
To the man, to whom, alas, it ceases to be strange, and there¬ 
fore seems in its freshness to die away, it only, while it con¬ 
stantly enlarges and is more fully his, though not lost, 
“ Fades into the light of common day.” 
Wonderful procedure of mind in the process of thought, in 
which, moved by high instinct more than the bee that seeks a 
lesser sweet, it writes line by line of the splendid macrocosm 
in corresponding lines of the growing concept of his thought so 
as to make the microcosm within, exclaiming as he proceeds: 
“It is mine! There is a world around me; it is splendid; I have 
found it; I have made it a part of myself; it is mine! ” 
But there are certain minds, in whom this instinct to appro¬ 
priate the world of objects asserts itself, who go about this 
gathering in other than a child’s mood. Not moved altogether 
by the impulses of life’s common day as if thinking things are 
to be known only just whenever and wherever life immedi¬ 
ately prompts or enjoys knowing, as the butterfly flits from 
flower to flower, each for what it contains, they recognize a law 
of correspondence and orderly distribution. A diviner voice 
within them seems to be chastening the earlier method and 
moving them to know the wide domain in its larger, truer and 
more real form. These we call, by special emphasis, the men of 
science. The sobering youth of the world has taught them that 
as the universe is a living growth, and not a dead structure, 
life has cast it into different departments, each of which, how¬ 
ever having common relation with all the rest, may furnish 
special field of conquest. So they take nature’s intimation, and 
