Undoubtedly we have not questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believ...e that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural ho...mestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature. The Maker of this earth but paten...ted a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »