THE SOUL IN NATUHE. 
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sending up its breath in flowers, has a soul by which it 
is united to all the links of diversified being; if man, 
too, has a soul not merely obedient to reason as in the 
brutes, but awakened to self-consciousness and so far 
free in agency, then, by all these links of causation, he 
shall trace up his relation to God, the first link in this 
trembling chain of spiritual impulses. Into his nostril 
did Deity breathe the breath of life, and this soul, which 
beats its wings eternally within his brain and bosom, is 
the incarnation of that holy breath which brought him 
into being. Dor this reason, while he fears not to admit 
that the material forms of the world are the least 
tangible, so, for his own soul, he can afford to rest on 
faith. 
