2–8 November 1840

In nature there is a mystical equality ; nothing is low. It costs the exertion of the very highest principle to effect the feeblest function of vege- table life. The total God meets you everywhere in the bract or stipule of the most unobserved weed. The least seed is of new significance to the oldest cherub as well as to the child; but every new thought whose light we drink adds new scores of works of art to the obsolete and unmeaning.