“There are indeed men whose souls are like the sea. Those billows that ebb and flood, that inexorable going and coming, that noise of all the winds, that blackness and that translucency, that vegetation peculiar to the deep, that democracy of clouds in full hurricane, those eagles flecked with foam, those wonderful star-risings reflected in mysterious agitation by millions of luminous wavetops, confused heads of the multitudinous sea—the errant lightnings, which seem to watch; those prodigious sobbings, those half-seen monsters, those nights of darkness broken by howlings, those furies, those frenzies, those torments, those rocks, those shipwrecks, those fleets crushing each other; then that charm, that mildness, those festivals, those gay white sails, those fishing boats, those songs amid the uproar, those shining ports, those mists rising from the shore; those wraths and those appeasements, that all in one, the unforeseen amid the changeless, the vast marvel of inexhaustibly varied monotony—all this may exist in a mind, and that mind is called genius, and you have Æschylus, you have Isaiah, you have Dante, you have Michael Angelo, you have Shakspere.” CHAPTER VI. THE PROVISION FOR THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN. In speaking of the spiritual nature of man, reference is not had to a side or faculty or power of himself, but to his real, essential life. Man is a spirit. All faculties and powers exist for him as such. The hunger, and the food provided for it, are to serve man as spirit. The social element, and the power provided for it, are to serve him as spirit. The intellect and truth, the will and right, the æsthetic sense and beauty, are all to serve him as spirit. The correlate of man as spirit, on one side of himself, we have seen to be the life of humanity—the correlate of man as spirit, on the other side of himself, is the life of God. Man’s spiritual nature is mediated to him on one side by the family, by the school, by the institutions of the state, by the establishments of trade, by the newspaper, by literature, by art, by history. Man’s spiritual nature is mediated to him on the other side by love, embodied in the one Mediator between God and man.