elements, the motion of these bodies and its direction, with a proximate estimate of its rapidity.

In proportion as things offer themselves more directly to our senses, in proportion as properties are more numerous and forms are more complex, the simpler mathematical relations disappear. The world starts, as each mind starts, in mathematical elements which are swallowed up in the growing aggregate. In the vegetable kingdom, number and figure retain very considerable ground, though the living powers are constantly breaking over them. The parts of flowers show an extended and beautiful combination of simple numbers and simple positions. In animal life this kind of symmetry is confined to its lowest forms; higher up it is displaced by more complex and significant relations.

In the spiritual world another set of ideas finds entrance, beauty, truth and right. No possible analysis can carry these back to simple material qualities or physical relations. But if we admit them to be, in reference to matter, transcendental ideas, then the whole material world has been pressing up, by stages of development, to forms of action and thought not contained in itself. This entrance last of the highest ideas of reason, shows that the evolution of the world has been progressive under the motives and measurements of mind, and and not under those of the senses or of material forces. These were more explicit at the beginning than at the end, save as more spiritual life has entered into their comprehension. The lower is transformed in the later stages of development, not so