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half has not been told. It cannot be. Great and marvelous are all Thy
works, Lord God Almighty! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Emerson says: "Whilst common sense looks at things or visible nature as
real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is
a second sight, looking through these, and using them as types or words
for thoughts which they signify." Using these faculties and not mere
eyesight, one must surely say: "Since this world, in power, fineness,
finish, beauty, and adaptations not only surpasses our accomplishment,
but also is past our finding out to its perfection, it must have been
made by One stronger, finer, and wiser than we are."
SEA SCULPTURE*
*Reprinted from _The Chautauquan_.
When the Russians charged on the Grivitza redoubt at Plevna they first
launched one column of men that they knew would be all shot down long
before they could reach it. But they made a cloud of smoke under the
cover of which a second column was launched. They would all be shot
down. But they carried the covering cloud so far that a third column
broke out of it and successfully carried the redoubt. They carried it,
but ten thousand men lay on the death-smitten slope.
So the great ocean sends eight or ten thousand columns a day to charge
with flying banners of spray on the rocky ramparts of the shore at
Santa Cruz, California.
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