influence. Man is conscious of a universal soul
within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in
a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love,
Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul
he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his,
but we are its; we are its property and men. And
the blue sky in which the private earth is buried,
the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlast-
ing orbs, is the type of Reason. That which intel-
lectually considered we call Reason, considered in
relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the
Creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in
all ages and countries embodies it in his language
as the FATHER.

It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or
capricious in these analogies, but that they are
constant, and pervade nature. These are not the
dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is
an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.
He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of
relation passes from every other being to him.
And neither can man be understood without these
objects, nor these objects without man. All the
facts in natural history taken by themselves, have
no value, but are barren, like a single sex. But
marry it to human history, and it is full of life.
Whole floras, all Linnæus' and Buffon's volumes,
are dry catalogues of facts; but these most trivial of

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