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from the earth, to which we shall soon return; the other, a spark of that Divine Intelligence, in which and through which we bear the image of the great Creator. By knowledge, the wings of the intellect are spread: by ignorance, they are closed and palsied, and the physical passions are left to gain the ascendency.

2. Knowledge opens all the senses to the wonders of creation: ignorance seals them up, and leaves the animal propensities unbalanced by reflection, enthusiasm, and taste. Te the ignorant man, the glorious pomp of day, the shining mysteries of night, the majestic ocean, the rushing storm, the plenty-bearing river, the salubrious breeze, the fertile field, the docile animal tribes, the broad, the various, the unexhausted, domain of Nature, are a mere outward pageant, poorly understood in their character and harmony, and prized only so far as they minister to the supply of sensual

wants.

3. How different the scene, to the man whose mind is stored with knowledge! For him, the mystery is unfolded, the vail is lifted up, as, one after another, he turns the leaves of that great volume of creation, which is filled, in every page, with the characters of wisdom, power, and love,—with lessons of truth the most exalted,-with images of unspeakable loveliness and wonder,-arguments of Providence,food for meditation,-themes of praise.

4. One noble science sends him to the barren hills, and teaches him to survey their broken precipices. Where ignorance beheld nothing but a rough inorganic mass, instruction discerns the intelligible record of the primal convulsions of the world; the secrets of ages before man was; the landmarks of the elemental struggles and throes of what is now the terraqueous globe. Buried monsters, of which the races are now extinct, are dragged out of deep strata, dug out of eternal rocks, and brought almost to life, to bear witness to the power that created them.

5. Before the admiring student of Nature has realized all the wonders of the elder world, thus, as it were, created again by science, another delightful Instructress, with her micro

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6. Then, while his whole soul is penetrated with admiration of the power which has filled with life, and motion, and sense, these all but non-existent atoms,-0, then, let the divinest of the Muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand; let her

"Come, but keep her wonted state,
With even step and musing gait,

And looks commercing with the skies,

Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes;"

let her lead him to the mount of observation; let her turn her heaven-piercing tube to the sparkling vault: through that, let him observe the serene star of evening, and see it transformed into a cloud-encompassed orb, a world of rugged mountains and stormy deeps; or behold the pale beams of Saturn, lost to the untaught observer amidst myriads of brighter stars, and see them expand into the broad disk of a noble planet, the seven attendant worlds, the wondrous rings, a mighty system in itself, borne at the rate of twenty-two thousand miles an hour, on its broad pathway through the heavens; and then let him reflect, that our great solar system, of which-Saturn and his stupendous retinue is but a small part, fills, itself, in the general structure of the universe, but the space of one fixed star; and that the Power, which filled the drop of water with millions of living beings, is present and active, throughout this illimitable creation! Yes, yes,

"The undevout astronomer is mad!"

QUESTIONS.-1. How is human knowledge defined? 2. Of what are we composed? 3. What is said of knowledge and ignorance? 4. How are the scenes of Nature viewed by the ignorant man? 5. How, by the man of knowledge? 6. How is the science of geology viewed by each? 7. What may be learned by the use of the microscope? 8. What, by the use of the telescope?

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NEVER SAY FAIL.

GLASER.

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Then onward, keep pushing,
And press on your way.
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Who would you betray,
All obstacles vanish,
All enemies quail,
In fear of their wisdom,
Who never say fail,

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In life's rosy morning,

In manhood's firm pride
Let this be the motto,
Our footsteps to guide
In storm and in sunshine,
Whatever assail,

We'll onward and conquer,
And never say fail

Allegretto.

I LOVE THE WEST.

C. W, SANDERS.

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