d love.

If our eyes were endowed with magnifying powers equal to that of some
colossal telescope, how would the dome of heaven expand into
inconceivable dimensions, the stars would be seen to be scattered along
the sky like the sands upon the sea-shore. Each bright particular star
would be magnified a thousand times, seeming vastly larger, and yet
vastly more distant. The whole concave of heaven then would appear a
thousand times larger than it does to our eyes, that is, it would appear
a thousand times over more like its real size, though even then, eyes
thus grandly gifted would fall immeasurably short of the reality of the
universe which lies in the bosom of God! Now that great race of the
future shall have their nature so in tune with things, and their
spiritual conceptions so enlarged, that the great world shall be
realized in its vastness, so much more vividly than we can conceive of
it, that it shall be as if their material eye were exalted to the power
of Lord Rosse's telescope.

Put together the fragments of men that we have amongst us to-day,--the
physical joy in existence of the western hunter, the intellectual
keenness of the man of science, the love of Nature of the artist or
poet, the love for each little bird and insect of the naturalist, the
justice of a Washington, the love for God and man of a Florence
Nightingale, and then we gain some glimpses of the men of the future
whom God has willed shall possess the planet at last. For assuredly the
race is safe, though nations or individuals may fail and perish. Safe,
because God has not built the planet in vain; safe, because his long
patience shall have its full satisfaction at the last. How shall these
things be? God will give this blessing to human labor directed by truth
and love.

From partial and one-sided cultivation of Human Nature, partial and
one-sided results can alone ensue. The commencement of this glorious era
will date from the first complete education of all the manifold nature
of man. The grand work once inaugurated, by the wondrous law of
hereditary descent, natures completer and nobler on all sides will be
the heritage of the next generation, by virtue of their birth, and so on
in stately progression each generation shall expand and transmit a
larger power to the generation that succeeds it; and at last the grand
universe of matter shall put the world of man to shame no longer, but
man with God's image shining through him, shall be seen