. The bird . This daily victoiy of the beloved son of light over death, over amurderous and tenebrous life, is the fitting theme of his song, ofthat hymn of joy with which the bird salutes each Dawn. But, besides song, the bird has many other languages. Likeman, he prattles, recites, converses. He and man are the only beingswhich have really a language. Man and the bird are the voice ofthe world. The bird, with its gift of augury, is ever drawing near to man,who is ever inflicting injury upon him. He undoubtedly divines,and has a presentiment of, what he wiU one day become whenhe emerges from
. The bird . This daily victoiy of the beloved son of light over death, over amurderous and tenebrous life, is the fitting theme of his song, ofthat hymn of joy with which the bird salutes each Dawn. But, besides song, the bird has many other languages. Likeman, he prattles, recites, converses. He and man are the only beingswhich have really a language. Man and the bird are the voice ofthe world. The bird, with its gift of augury, is ever drawing near to man,who is ever inflicting injury upon him. He undoubtedly divines,and has a presentiment of, what he wiU one day become whenhe emerges from the barbarism in which he is now unhappilyplunged. He recognizes in him the creature unique, sanctified, and blessed,who ought to be the arbiter of all, who should accomplish the destinyof this globe by one supreme act of good—the union of all Kfe andthe reconciliation of all beings. This pacific union must after a time be effected by a great art ofeducation and initiation, which man begins to Page 64. Training for flight (see also p. 84).-—Is it wrong forman, ia his reveries, to beguile himself into a belief that he will oneday be more than man, to attribute to himself wings ? Dream or pre-sentiment, it matters not. It is certain that a power of flight such as the bird possesses iatruly a sixth sense. It would be absurd to see in it only an auxiliary ILLUSTEATIVE NOTES. 813 of touch. (See, among other works, Huber, Vol des oiseaux de proie,1784). The -wing is so rapid and so infallible only because it is aided bya visual faculty which has not its equal in all creation. The bird, we must confess, lives wholly in the air, in the there be a sublime life, a life of fire, it is this. Who surveys and descries all earth ? Who measures it with hisglance and his wing ? Who knows all its paths ? And not in anybeaten route, but at the same time in every direction : for where isnot the birds track ? His relations with heat, electricity, and magnetism, all the imp
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