Nature presents herself to man as unity. This implies mind. Unity is impossible without mind. The mind underneath the unity, without him, speaks to the mind within him. Then by his own mind he recreates the universe in literature. He hears the cawing of rooks, the cooing of doves, the purling of brooks, and the roar of tempests. These, with all other sounds in nature, are caught and combined in the marvelous creation of Mozart and Beethoven. Much is said by the learned men who are ever seeking to minify man’s place in nature, about the reason and memory, and intelligence, and even conscience of the lower animals. It is almost enough to make one wish he were a dog or a horse when he reads how much sense and how much conscience dogs and horses have. Not much weight, however, will ever be given to these long treatises on the intelligence of the lower animals, until some bee shall give us a book on mathematics, or until some horse shall tell through one of our agricultural journals the best time to sow clover; or some dog shall give us the philosophy of the chase. We see the capacity of the human mind in Shakspere’s plays. So one picture painted by a cat, one poem written by a mule, one philosophical dissertation composed by an owl, or one cocoanut plantation planted by the monkeys, would establish beyond question that the high claims made for the mental capabilities of these humble members of the animal creation are justified. Man grows wheat by the use of the mind within him, which sees how the mind without him has made the growth of wheat possible. Man utilizes power, by the use of the mind within him, which recognizes how power is produced and controlled by the mind without him. Man sees truth, because the mind within him is like the mind without him, which expresses itself in truth. Man sees law, because the mind within him is like the mind without him which ordained law. So man sees beauty, because the mind within him is like the mind without him, which expresses itself in beauty. Food, and truth, and law, and beauty, cannot be reproduced by man, except by the laws of mind acting in him as the laws of mind do without him. V. What is the use of beauty? Like truth and law, it looks beyond itself. It is to help realize the purpose for which the earth was created, the purpose which finds its consummation in a perfect man.