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not convict. If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in. If
the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by
an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer
flame. The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost
rigors or felicities of condition and to establish themselves with great
indifferency under all varieties of circumstances. Under all governments
the influence of character remains the same,--in Turkey and in New
England about alike. Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history
honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make
him.

These appearances indicate the fact that the universe is represented
in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all
the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff; as the
naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse
as a running man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a
tree as a rooted man. Each new form repeats not only the main
character of the type, but part for part all the details, all the aims,
furtherances, hindrances, energies and whole system of every other.
Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world
and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human
life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its
end. And each one must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all
his destiny.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the
animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste,
smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that
take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence
is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The
value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the
good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the
force, so the limitation.

Thus is the universe alive. All things are moral. That soul which within
us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out
there in history we can see its fatal strength. "It is in the world, and
the world was made by it." Justice is not postponed. A perfect
equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. Hoi kuboi Dios aei
eupiptousi,--The dice of