Harvey Rice - Nature and Culture (1875)

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Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

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The powers of the human mind, if not infinite, may admit of infinite culture. What is supposed to be "unknowable" may, therefore, become known. However this may be, there is no divine injunction which prescribes a limit to human possibilities.

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In modern methods of logic, we reason from cause to effect, from the known to the unknown; but, in attempting to penetrate the region of the unknown, we are often left without a reliable guide.

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It is only in modern times that science has taken the advanced step, and led philosophy into the beautiful avenues of Nature; where, amid the infinite, she gazes at the universe, listens to the music of the spheres, and beholds the golden wealth of the infinite displayed on every side.

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We cannot look at a grain of sand, insignificant as it may seem, without seeing in its composition the material which enables us to read the golden record of the heavens.

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In a philosophical sense, "life" and "death" are but conventional terms, meaning nothing more than a change of matter from one form of existence to another.

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Whatever we may think or believe, the volume of Nature contains nothing but truth. It is, in fact, God's manuscript, which awaits interpreters, and which, if read aright, leaves nothing to conjecture.

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Who is there that would not, if he could, explore the untrodden yet brilliant domains of infinite space, the garden of God, ever blossoming with golden flowers, and thus acquire for himself divine wisdom? If we would become as gods, and walk with God, we must learn to partake the food, and drink the beverage, of the gods.

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The origin of the material universe presents a problem which neither the vagaries of the ancients nor the speculations of the moderns have been able to solve in a satisfactory manner.

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Vast as our solar system truly is, it may still be regarded as but a chandelier suspended in the entrance-hall of Nature's great temple.

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In every star, in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every grain of sand, in every tiling visible and invisible, there is life, light, and beauty.

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