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 derive immortalizing sustenance from the essence of divine potency and life distributed in the nutriment that feeds the flower into beauty. No outward skill can confer those capabilities, although it may encourage them. Cut a nation thus off from God and a terrible wrath necessarily overwhelms it, and it falls.

“The disregard of the native principles of equity is but, another name for the rejection of the example of unity and co-operation between all the forces that work harmoniously in the world around us. The same light and air confer their elastic erowth; the same rain and lightning stimulate their activities. All is oneness in the great unity of harmony and co-operation. Men observe this phenomenon, but through factitious doctrines invented from the outside, allow themselves to be cheated out of the spirit of equity this observation, if unimpeded, must confer. The insufficient supply of facts and natural laws in the mind of a nation, whereof the Lord Boppo has spoken, is the necessary result of the obstructions created between the soul and its surroundings. When the nature of these is misrepresented, for the purpose of erecting an antagonistic system through the neglect or the fear of them, poverty of mind and beggary in appliances must ensue. The better informed in the exuberance of nature’s skill and methods have always prevailed and filled the world with abortive civilizations, crushed by men goaded on by ignorant terror of the unseen. I believe that my own nation has fallen through submission to similar misdirection.