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 ing the soul with the keenest sense of beauty and leading to the most thoroughly practical uses of life. There is a knowledge-loving faculty in man which must be gratified and which seeks to know truth for its own sake. There is an æsthetic sense which is delighted with harmony, symmetry and beauty in nature or in art, in philosophy as well as in poetry. There is a love of use, born of goodness in the soul, which recognizes the fitness and qualities of ideas as well as of things, and which seeks and finds them for the good they may do. These are the causes which are for ever silently at work, preparing mankind for the reception and acknowledgment of the doctrines of the New Church; which are therefore inevitable: