The fountain : with jets of new meanings . man holy meditations of Deity. But owing to the innate imperfections—the intrin-sically partial instinctiveness and automatic imbecil-ities of the animals heart and intellect, its life must beessentially solitary. The profound abysses of seas andoceans—the dreary wastes of swampy wildernesses—the lonely caves hidden in the dark bosoms of greatmountains slumbering in the unexplored hearts of con-tinents—these are the homes of hundreds of thousandsof animals! What can be more overcharged with lonelinessthan the life of an ignorant man ? What solitude is
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . man holy meditations of Deity. But owing to the innate imperfections—the intrin-sically partial instinctiveness and automatic imbecil-ities of the animals heart and intellect, its life must beessentially solitary. The profound abysses of seas andoceans—the dreary wastes of swampy wildernesses—the lonely caves hidden in the dark bosoms of greatmountains slumbering in the unexplored hearts of con-tinents—these are the homes of hundreds of thousandsof animals! What can be more overcharged with lonelinessthan the life of an ignorant man ? What solitude isprofounder than the cheerless, obscure, deeply-shadedbrain of an idiotic human mind ? The foxes haveholes in the mountains of solitude ; and the birdsof the air have nests in the sacred stillness of theforest; but widely over them all, asupon all the kingdoms below thehuman, hangs and broods the affec-tionate and solitary night of imper-fection. Everywhere around man are affec-N0™ ain™3 IN tionately living and dependency clus-. u JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. tering millions upon millions of objects—little beings,below mans estate, manifesting wondrous beauty ofstructure and incomparable wisdom—existing in ser-vant-states of subordination, each inspired with theholy mission of feeding upon, refining, and liftinglower and gross atoms of matter, so that such atomscan feed and fellowship with the sovereign needs ofthe crowning human kingdom. Apparatus upon apparatus exists _r in full action—the steady-grindingmills of God—animated by and obe-dient to the infinite law of living mills—the bees, bugs,reptiles, rats, creeping things, vines,plants, insects, birds, slugs, worms,weevil—are hard at work, both day and night, inorder to receive and advance grossest particles forthe nourishment and development of mankind.
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