the foresight of the spirit, experience in profounder
laws.

The whole character and fortune of the individ-
ual are affected by the least inequalities in the
culture of the understanding; for example, in the
perception of differences. Therefore is Space, and
therefore Time, that man may know that things
are not huddled and lumped, but sundered and
individual. A bell and a plough have each their
use, and neither can do the office of the other.
Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear;
but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal
eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separa-
tion, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of
merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no
range in their scale, but suppose every man is as
every other man. What is not good they call the
worst, and what is not hateful, they call the best.

In like manner, what good heed Nature forms
in us! She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea,
and her nay, nay.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zo-
ology (those first steps which the farmer, the
hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's
dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rub-
bish are concealed sure and useful results.

How calmly and genially the mind apprehends
one after another the laws of physics! What

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