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. 1859 Excerpt: ...where substances yield instantly and perfectly to the slightest thought, and where there are ten thousand distinct forms that combine to make one form here! When I think that the beauty of this world is but the rude sketch and the faint outline of that of the spiritual, when I know that the elements that compose the ...
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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. 1859 Excerpt: ...where substances yield instantly and perfectly to the slightest thought, and where there are ten thousand distinct forms that combine to make one form here! When I think that the beauty of this world is but the rude sketch and the faint outline of that of the spiritual, when I know that the elements that compose the forms in the spiritual world are infinitely more numerous, and inconceivably more distinct and perfect than they are here--though they seem almost infinite in this, and so wonderful that they surpass all description, my heart swells with indescribable emotion. I feel like bowing my head, and my heart too, in penitence and shame that I should ever have a selfish wish, that I should ever distrust the goodness of a love which manifests itself in such forms, and makes such provision for the wants, and such a glorious habitation for the dwelling-place of its children. But beautiful as the world is, it is the lowest form of beauty, and in many respects imperfect. It is perpetual because there is a constant succession of forms; the flower and the cloud, the forest and the stream, that. compose the landscape to-day, or form a most important part of it, are gone to-morrow, never more to he restored. The withered flower and the decayed fruit and the fallen tree disappear and become parts of other forms. Each individual thing also has but a few of the elements which are found in the whole. One has colour, another form, another both. But all these beauties are collated in the perfect man. There is not a form, nor a motion, nor a colour, nor a quality of any kind that can be called beautiful that is not found in man, and, so far as he lives a life of true order, in every man. The reason is evi dent. All the goodness and beauty that exists in the world is an ...
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