p, to break the everlasting chain, there would be no universe; there
would be only chaos come again, and all the work of setting the planets
a-spinning round and round their centres and apportioning the orbits of
the stately suns, and their places in the precessions of their
accompanying worlds; all would go for nothing, all would have to be
begun again, and on the same lines exactly. There are no other; there
is no other law, and the name of the law that holds all in imperishable
harmony, is Love, just Love.

LIFE IN NATURE.

The microscope has revealed to us the life and habits of myriads of
creatures of whose existence we had previously no knowledge. We had
not even a suspicion that what to our unaided vision appeared inert
elements held a rampant, multitudinous life, nowhere dead, but always
surging and changing, ever replacing death and decay with a new life
all its own. Nature's luxuriance everywhere fills us with wonder and
delight. The fragrant ferny depths of the forest, and the lush growth
of the rank marsh-land, the immeasurable sands of the ocean-edge hiding
in their mysterious sameness innumerable and beautiful shells and
corals, and the mountain top heaped up with boulders, or crumbling by
nature's processes into pebbly imponderance.

Life, swarming everywhere. Tiny leaflets giving succor and shelter to
tinier animal life--its special fairy. Huge beasts couchant in
majestic trees, guarding against invasions, with a fierce, jealous rage
inherited from the gnomes and satyrs.

Deep sea depths untouched by lightnings, where the kraken makes his
home; jolly dolphins disporting in the sunlight, responding to the cry
of the hovering wild duck and gull. Human beings overcrowding in the
oldest settled portions of the globe, until nature's resources for
their sustenance are wellnigh exhausted.

All these, and many more, might justly be enumerated to illustrate the
bountiful and inexhaustible resources of the great creative,
reconstructive Power in the universe of matter.

Life, everywhere life, forcing out death and decay. Ever changing its
form of expression. Reforming itself upon steadily advancing models.
All nature swinging in circles so wide and vast as to require centuries
for their completion.

One of the most fascinating doctrines of the Swedish Seer is contained
in the "law of correspondences." By it many things, seemingly
irregular, "fall into line," and become parts of a great proc