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230 goodness and joy. The diffeienoe between being the same as, and being in harmony with or correspondent to—is very manifest. For instance, a precious stone has its particles so arranged, as to be able to receive, and either to reflect or transmit, the light of the sun, and thus present that light, either glittering in its white brilliance, or divided into its component and beautiful colours. In this case, the stone may be said to correspond, or answer to, or be analagous to, the sun's light, so as, when receiving that light, to present it again in a beautiful reflected or transmitted form. But, on the other hand, let the same light fall on a black mass, and there is no such result, no beauty or splendour at all, but the rays are either suffocated, or turned into ugly appearances. Such a mass may be said to be non-correspondent: the patient does not reflect or present-again the agent, so as to affect the observer in a corresponding manner. Thus, then, the precious stone, before described, is correspondent with the sun's light: but this is wholly different from being the same as, or identical with it: the stone is not light at all—it merely receives the light.

But, to take a more perfect illustration. The human eye is a part of man's body, so constituted as to be a recipient of light—so formed as to answer or correspond to the light of the sun—to receive it and make use of it. Such a structure, it will be observed, is peculiar to the eye. The ear is not of such a structure, and therefore the light has no special effect upon it: the ear acts as well in the dark as in the light. Not so the eye: it is useless in the dark: it is wedded to the light, and thence it receives its stimulus to action. We say then, that the eye is a form correspondent to