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...he may find The law that governs each ; and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree, among all visible beings; The constitutions, powers, and faculties, Which they inherit,—cannot step beyond,— And cannot fall beneath; that do assign To every class its station...

...exhortation to the cultivation of an affectionate knowledge of the inferior kinds, as members of " the mighty commonwealth of things, — up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man," — is one of the sublime passages of the fourth book of the Excursion. The sympathy descending to...

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...among all visible things; it was strange that she should have it to explain to herself, assigning -' To every class its station and its office, Through...things, Up from the creeping plant to sovereign man." " For me," she said, " I love the spring with such enthusiasm, that I confess your lukewarm temperament...

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...he may find The law that governs each ; and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree, among all visible beings ; The constitutions,...things; Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man." Here we must take ourselves up — where nature seems to .leave us — and go on with self-inquiry,...