mystically-speculative minds. "Look how the floor of heaven," says
Lorenzo in SHAKESPEARE'S _The Merchant of Venice_--

" . . . Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold's"
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."[1]


[1] Act v. scene i.

Or, as KINGSLEY writes in one of his letters, "When I walk the fields
I am oppressed every now and then with an innate feeling that
everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it. And
this feeling of being surrounded with truths which I cannot grasp,
amounts to an indescribable awe sometimes! Everything seems to be
full of God's reflex, if we could but see it. Oh! how I have prayed to
have the mystery unfolded, at least hereafter. To see, if but for a
moment, the whole harmony of the great system! To hear once the music
which the whole universe makes as it performs His bidding!"[1] In this
connection may be mentioned the very significant fact that the
Pythagoreans did not consider the earth, in accordance with current
opinion, to be a stationary body, but believed that it and the other
planets revolved about a central point, or fire, as they called it.