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mentary as it here appears, and unjust as it is to rend away a small portion of the building as a type of the whole.

"At the present time when all are more or less eagerly engaged in the pursuance of external advantages, and, under penalty of being cast into the fiery furnace of the world's scorn, do fall down and worship that earth-born goddess of temporal utility which opinion has set up, it would be vain enthusiasm to attempt to divert attention, but for a moment, from so favoured an idol, were it not that in the minds of all, even its most degraded votaries, there already exists a most real and bitter sense of its insufficiency and latent deformity; and until Wisdom shall have effected that internal renovation which above all things we now need, it is vainly that we seek in externals a harmony and happiness which has not been imaged there. Yet still we linger on in expectation; and with that abiding patience, which is the test of faith in a good cause, may we continue to seek on, not vaguely as heretofore, for passing excitements, but with steadfast perseverance looking within, until Wisdom reveal to us those higher objects of pursuit and truer attractions which will not suffer the mind aspiring to them to fall into dishonour; but purifying and corroborating as they draw, will, when at length they are worthily won, unite with and transmute their worshipper into that Harmony and Beauty which, in the dim beholding, he venerated and loved.

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Begin to-day, nor end till evil sink

In its due grave; and if at once we may not
Declare the greatness of the work we plan,
Be sure at least that ever in our mind
It stands complete before us, as a dome
Of light beyond this gloom, a house of stars,
Encompassing these dusky tents; a thing
Absolute, close to all, though seldom seen,
Near as our Hearts and perfect as the Heavens ;
Be this our aim and model, and our Hands
Shall not wax faint until the work is done.'

"The Idea of the Good, the Pure, and the True is the alluring object which we all innerly worship-the progeny of Divine Intellect immortal and strong-even Moral Beauty which, though obscurely now, through the mists of sense and selfishness, ever shines attractively our Polar Star:

"When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath
Shall, like a whirlwind, scatter in its breeze
The whole dark pile of human mockeries,
Then shall the reign of Mind commence on earth;
And starting fresh, as from a second birth,
Man, in the sunshine of the world's new spring,
Shall walk transparent like some holy thing.'

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