connection with the mind of man, an immeasurably broader range than any corresponding sense. The ease and rapidity with which it follows the printed page, the kindred facility with which it learns to interpret the obscure signs in nature of any science, its movement by the aid of the microscope through the world of minute things, and by the telescope through the universe of immense things, make it the entirely adequate inlet to the fullest data of the largest intellectual life. Men have never put measurement to this magnificent portal of knowledge and beauty.

Man is equally well endowed with the facile instruments of power. No matter what the ear and the eye let in, the voice and the hand can give it proportionate utterance. They add assertion to revelation, as the sky adds color to light, and the thoughts of man have much of the fullness and charm of expression which belong to the forces of nature as they awake with the day. The hand of man is the most variable and deft of instruments. All other tools are straitened and awkward in comparison with it. They all yield themselves to it, and simply expand its power. There is nothing which man proposes to do, in whose accomplishment the hand cannot adequately second him. Compare it with any instrument of merely animal life, and its superiority is as immeasurable as that of the mind of man. A great violinist is instinct, in every movement of the arms, in every touch of the fingers, with a musical inspiration, that pours itself out in perfect execution, in combinations and