All the senses thus, as they develop and deepen, are found to unite in the very focus of individual life. Slowly, and through long experience, their relation to each other, _their very meaning_ unfolds, or will unfold; and as this process takes place the man knows himself _one_, a unity, of which the various faculties are the different manifestations. Then further through his less localised feelings or more glorified senses the individual finds his relation to other individuals. Through his loves and hatreds, through his senses of attraction, repulsion, cohesion, solidarity, order, justice, charity, right, wrong and the rest--these feelings, each like the others deepening back more and more as time goes on--he gradually discovers his true and abiding relationship to other individuals, and to the divine society of which they all form a part--and so at last, if we may venture to say so, his relationship to the absolute and universal. At present, since our most important relation to each other is conceived of as one of rivalry and Competition, we of course think of the objects of Nature as being chiefly engaged in a Struggle for Existence with each other; but when we become aware of all our senses and feelings, and of ourselves as individuals, as having relation to the Absolute and universal, proceeding from it, as the branches and twigs of a tree from the trunk--then we shall become aware of a Divine or absolute science in Nature; we shall at last understand that all objects have a permanent and indissoluble relation to each other, and shall see their true meaning--though not till then. Is it possible then that Science, having hitherto--and we shall see in time that this process has been really most valuable and important--gone outwards from the centre towards the very fringe of Humanity--emptying facts as far as possible as it went of all feeling, and reducing itself at last to the most shadowy generalisations on the very verge of sense and nonsense--is it possible, I say, that it will now return, and _first_ filling up facts with feeling as far as practicable (that is, by direct and the most living contact with Nature in every form, learning to enter into direct personal sense-relationship with every phenomenon and phase), will so gradually ascend to the great central fact and feeling, and then at last and for the first time become fully conscious of a vast organisation--absolutely perfect and intimately knit from its centre to its utmost circumference--(the true cosmos of Man--the conceptions of man and god combined)--existing inchoate or embryonic in every individual man, animal, plant, or other creature--the object of all life, experience, suffering, and toil--the ground of all sensation, and the hidden, yet proper, theme of all thought and study?