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Whatever we propose saying on this subject is comprehended in the old doc trine of correspondence, of the essential and eternal correlation of the material and spiritual worlds. The universe is homogeneous, therefore is analogy a result of law, and not a work of the fancy. He who speaks the central truths of nature and of life, who penetrates to the core of things, without being bewildered and misled at the surface, must have convinced himself of this fact, namely, that unity underlies diversity, and is anterior to it. Because this is the order of creation, the deeper the intellect penetrates, the more broad and simple become its utterances, the more facts they cover or presuppose. takes a very long and complex statement at the surface to be equal to a short and plain one nearer the centre; hence commonplace writers, because their ideas take principally a lateral di It rection, and do not follow the converging radii, are voluminous and bewildering, where genius lays bare the matter in a few pithy sentences. All things are akin, and of one flesh and bone; to whoso perceives this is vital analogy possible. When Ruskin writes on art, there are lessons of virtue and right conduct as well; metaphysics and theology are both in the back-ground, and his criticisms have a double force for being applicable to higher matters. The subject is defined and emphasized, but not insulated, not dis - located; it still stands related to the whole, as an island is fast to the earth at the bottom, instead of being completely sundered, with only a surface importance, and floated away on the technical framework of arbitrary rules. What shall we say, is there no design of analogy in this universe? Is it all fancy, like astrology and fortune-telling? Are the apparent deep-rooted homologies only accidental likenesses, not ordinations but only coïncidences? How significant the analogy between a man's life and the solar year! Is it only a stroke of rhetoric, a mere paralogism, to speak of the seed-time and of the harvest of life? The 'frosts of age,' the 'evening of life,' how pathetic, how profoundly affecting the simile! In like manner we speak of the heat of the passions, of the flow of the feelings, of the sun-shine of the heart, of the eye of the mind, of the food of the |