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the world's heart, or quicken its beatings.  It may make
him lord of the earth, but it has no strength to carry him
into the empyrean, and to unveil to his vision its ineffable
splendors. They are the great men of the earth, who have
lived the most, and lived with their highest faculties. They
too are the good, the truly noble, the royal priesthood, the
crowned and sceptred hierarchy of humanity. And so shall
they, one day, come to be regarded; so shall be judged the
living, and so too shall yet be judged all the historic names of
the past. They must all go through this new ordeal, and fiery,
indeed, will it prove to most of them, for by it shall they be
utterly consumed. Many of the demi-gods of the earth will be
found to be idols of clay only, and they will crumble in pieces.
" The world knows little of its greatest men."
   He who has this development of the transcendental powers
is always girt about with an invulnerable panoply. Ever is he
enveloped in an atmosphere of transparent light. Angels stand
beside him, and watch over him, and minister unto him.
   " He hath a daily beauty in his life," which goes with him
into all suffering, into all drudgery, into all trial, and the low-
liest office of humanity becomes to him instinct with the high-
est dignity, and the purest pleasure of the immortal soul.
  How filled with benevolence are all the arrangements of
Providence in relation to these disinterested sentiments. Look,
for a moment, at the two followin g:-first, their susceptibility
of general and high cultivation; and, second, the means which
God has provided, in the universal duties and discipline of life,
to promote this cultivation. These high powers constitute,
more than the intellect, the great common blessing of men.
Once in an age only, is there raised up a Newton, but the
spiritual elements of the Howards and Oberlins are scattered,
plentiful and broad-cast, over the world, and need only the
quickening sunshine and dew of proper culture to ripen and
mould them into the brightest and loftiest forms of humanity.
Only one man in a nation can read the works of La Place, but
the gospel addresses itself to all who have ears to hear. Few
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