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"Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it show'd In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea."-- MILTON.
_Paradise Lost_, Book vii, line 554.
"Thought shines from God as shines the morn; Language from kindling thought is born." ANON.: _a Poem in imitation of Coleridge_.
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"Original Truth," [43] says Harris, "having the most intimate connection with the _Supreme Intelligence_, may be said (as it were) to shine with unchangeable splendor, enlightening throughout the universe every possible subject, by nature susceptible of its benign influence.
Passions and other obstacles may prevent indeed its efficacy, as clouds and vapours may obscure the sun; but itself neither admits diminution, nor change, because the darkness respects only particular percipients.

Among _these_ therefore we must look for ignorance and error, and for that _subordination of intelligence_ which is their natural consequence.

Partial views, the imperfections of sense; inattention, idleness, the turbulence of passions; education, local sentiments, opinions, and belief; conspire in many instances to furnish us with ideas, some too partial, and (what is worse than all this) with many that are erroneous, and contrary to truth.
These it behoves us to correct as far as possible, by cool suspense and candid examination.

Thus by a connection perhaps little expected, the cause of _Letters_, and that of _Virtue_, appear to coincide; it being the business of both, to examine our ideas, and to amend them by the standard of nature and of truth."-- See _Hermes_, p.