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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...as charity, from human breasts. 1 think, articulate, I laugh and weep, And exercise all functions of a man. How then should I and any man that lives 2OO Be strangers to each other? Pierce my vein, Take of the crimson stream meandering there, And catechise it well. Apply thy glass, Search it, and prove now if it be not blood Congenial with thine own: and if it be, What edge of subtlety canst thou suppose Keen enough, wise and skilful as thou art, To cut the hnk of brotherhood, by which ()ne common Maker bound me to the kind? True; I am no proficient, I confess, 210 In arts like yours. I cannot call the swift And perilous lightnings from the angry clouds, And bid them hide themselves in earth beneath; I cannot analyse the air, nor catch The parallax of yonder luminous point That seems half quenched in the immense abyss; Such powers I boast not--neither can I rest A silent witness of the headlong rage Or heedless folly by which thousands die, Done of my bone, and kindred souls to mine. 220 God never meant that man should scale the heave r.s l!y strides of human wisdom. In His works, Though wondrous, He commands us in His word To seek Him rather where His mercy shines. The mind indeed, enlightened from above, Views Him in all; ascribes to the grand cause The grand effect; acknowledges with joy His manner, and with rapture tastes His str.'. But never yet did philosophic tube, That brings the planets home into the eye 250 Of observation, and discovers, else Not visible, His family of worlds, Discover Him that rules them; such a veil Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth. And dark in things divine. Full often too Our wayward intellect, the more we learn Of nature, overlooks her Author more, From instrumental causes proud to draw Conclusions retrograde, and ...

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