As the clear and sensitive organ of the eye, which holds upon
its tiny lens the masses of far stars and the mazes of their
movement, was evidently made for this marvelous function; as
the nerve of the ear, which takes eloquence, poetry, wit,
applause, the tone of affection, the crash of the thunder-burst,
the lively laugh of childish glee, and communicates each with
instant fidelity to the spirit behind, was manifestly formed for
exactly this office; so, just as clearly, the personal soul,
with its judgment and its will, with its deep-seated instincts
and its eager desires, with its unrest in indolence, and its
thought that outruns attainment every instant, was made to
realize its good by working. The date-tree in the desert is
not more precisely preadjusted to its office!--RICHARD S.
STORRS.
(3503)
=Work in Miniature=--See MINIATURE WORK.