“Then the Great Spirit, whom his works adore,
    Within his own deep essence view’d the forms,
    The forms eternal of created things.”—­AKENSIDE.
                    Pleasures of the Imagination, Book i.

    “And in the school of sacred wisdom taught,
    To read his wonders, in whose thought the world,
    Fair as it is, existed ere it was.”—­COWPER.
                    Task:  Winter Morning Walk, p. 150.

    “Thence to behold this new-created world,
    The addition of his empire, how it show’d
    In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
    Answering his great idea.”—­MILTON.
                    Paradise Lost, Book vii, line 554.

    “Thought shines from God as shines the morn;
    Language from kindling thought is born.” 
                    ANON.:  a Poem in imitation of Coleridge.

17.  “Original Truth,” [43] says Harris, “having the most intimate connection with the Supreme Intelligence, may be said (as it were) to shine with unchangeable splendor, enlightening throughout the universe every possible subject, by nature susceptible of its benign influence.  Passions and other obstacles may prevent indeed its efficacy, as clouds and vapours may obscure the sun; but itself neither admits diminution, nor change, because the darkness respects only particular percipients.  Among these therefore we must look for ignorance and error, and for that subordination of intelligence which is their natural consequence.  Partial views, the imperfections of sense; inattention, idleness, the turbulence of passions; education, local sentiments, opinions, and belief; conspire in many instances to furnish us with ideas, some too partial, and (what is worse than all this) with many that are erroneous, and contrary to truth.  These it behoves us to correct as far as possible, by cool suspense and candid examination.  Thus by a connection perhaps little expected, the cause of Letters, and that of Virtue, appear to coincide; it being the business of both, to examine our ideas, and to amend them by the standard of nature and of truth.”—­See Hermes, p. 406.

18.  Although it seems plain from our own consciousness, that the mind is an active self-moving principle or essence, yet capable of being moved, after its own manner, by other causes outward as well as inward; and although it must be obvious to reflection, that all its ideas, perceptions, and emotions, are, with respect to itself, of a spiritual nature—­bearing such a relation to the spiritual substance in which alone they appear, as bodily motion is seen to bear to material substances; yet we know, from experience and observation, that they who are acquainted with words, are apt to think in words—­that is, mentally to associate their internal conceptions with the verbal signs which they have learned to use.  And though I do not conceive the position to be generally