Note 111 — IV ADDRESS
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Page 125, note 1. “All things are moral, and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven, every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life ... every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong, and echo the Ten Commandments.”—Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p. 40. See also the last sentence in “Prudence,” Essays, First Series.