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that geometrical point, the I; bringing everything back to
the soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all
activity, from summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy
mechanism, attaching the flight of an insect to the move-
ment of the earth, subordinating, who knows? Were it only
by the identity of the law, the evolution of the comet in the
firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop of
water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the
prime motor of which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is
the zodiac.

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