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i * fc ra h ^ k , tqit , ^ n , A 3 im ^ g , ^ 4 R b ^ # to S ^ rded , ^^ l y ^^^ i » U ^ way render t % i $ e ^ more , mt ^ g ^^ . T ^ s ^ in . reaves mdeed upon 143- < mn ^ xisr apparently iregafcUe&s of all ptfcer obie ' cts ; but , in truth , his being is only full and c 6 ttffle £ e ? when the p ]^ ne £ s , the reflections of himself , revolve around Tumi
wl ^ n fre , beaming forth his rays , finds in the planets his life j ^ pcl hi $ completion ; when they , moving in distinct orbits , and in the ) r pa , th meeting the emitted rays , fiiid , and ever and continually receive * thj ^ ir tyfe and their completion in the sun . Then only does
the glory of the sun become actual and manifest when the planets , serrated , from fcim , obey his powerful attraction ; then only ' 4 oes it becpine apparent that they are , and must be ,, one with the sun , and that on his influence their fertility depends , when the pl ^ riet ^ in their CQur&e tread with him in living oscillating : movement , and thqs produce the varying seasons . In like manner , we should t \ ot h ^ ye known the joy of spring , had not the spring been precede ^ by the severe ^ . nd rugged winter ;—we should not have known tfte
delight of devotion , had not the union with Grod , which we recognise in devotion , followed an apparent separation from hin } . We should not have known the happiness of love ., had not ^ he satisfaction i ^ gives succeeded to the suffering and sighing o , f ahsenpe ; and ,, again , it is only by the withdrawal of our hi ghest gratifications , that we are capable of knowing their full enjoyffieat ,
Sq does it appear how everything ( though sometimes only seemingly ) becomes manifest and attains to its own sense , and lfixowledge , and perception , and enjoyment , according to its true aud pomplete infinitude , through its opposite—unity . The
eternal and the infinite is the commencement and termination of being , —in it the endless circle has its consummation;—but duality , —separation and contrast—is necessary in order ttiat the former may arrive at the latter , —that the latter may again arrive at ttie former . E . R . BL
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Politicians , who are plunged deep in the study of the devilries of nations , tvho caitch eagerly at clues wherewith to thread the intricacies of party ; philosophers , who explore the before "untraversed regions of science , to cull truths that may enrich the rnind ,
as the herbalist culls his balmy treasures to strengthen the body ; poets , whose eyes wander over each fresh object with the most iceenl y conscious sense of beauty whereon it may dwell , of jail 'kin&k , in all degrees , whether in that physical perfection , aHcmer / bt that ; spiritual perfection , a woman ' s # tfwrl- ^ -bt * fc at the « artie ti *^ e rfike unconscious of the rich rettrrn tfc ^ jr rtetid ^ r for ^ wch' 4 r € W » fcred impression , & !> & of th 6 mtrgrterto ^ d ttla g ^ W ^ v fefeh f h ^ y * esn * * h 4 k
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AN ODD SUBJECT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 795, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/39/
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