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will seize first that which is greatest. Give the soul its choice, and its first demand is, what is the prime secret and power of the universe? And of any series of truths, it first seizes those salient features which best tend to answer this question,—while the minor truths are learned only by force of leisure;—yet each of these is as capable of pleasing the soul as the greater truths, when that soul is so diverted by the flesh that was made to confine it that the thought of infinity is abstracted therefrom.—Go to the great galleries where the genius of a thousand years is hung against the walls, and begin to examine. While you gaze at the first picture, a glimpse of the second distracts your attention, and you pass to that; from this the third attracts you,—and from this the fourth is calling: soon you are in motion: you wander on, for novelty,—past works that have cost toil and skill, and are full of beauty,—but you are in motion,—you want novelty, novelty: like an ox in a fresh field, you cannot stop to eat until you have been all around it,—you would know if there is a picture there as good as you can appreciate—one that shall strike you dumb. But you do not find it. Wearied and disgusted that the gallery is not of infinite extent, that you might walk on, run, fly, for first impressions only, till you find the Perfect picture, you who came to spend the whole day go home e'er it is noon. Morning dawns,—the flesh is rested,—the bedeviled curiosity of the infinite is quiet,—and lo! the little picture over the mantel attracts you for an hour: how softly the shadows fall ! how plain the dark and straggling foliage stands against the sky! how well