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of that waveless sea, whose black waters flow around
the world, begin to rise; how good it is to feel
that we are built upon the hard, imperishable rock!

A structure of this sort, or of
any sort, in fact, is not simply so much
material put together; it is a thing of character;
it speaks a language; it sets forth ideas. How
it may be with pure Spirits we know not,
but with us mixed beings there is almost an
irrepressible desire to work into the outward; to
mold & shape matter; to express ideas in outward
forms; to see the idea in exterior figure & out-
-ward effect, that lay once impalpable in the mind.
Hence the arts & their history – poetry, painting, sculp-
-ture, architecture, invention, & all the works men
busy themselves with. The cultivated man
scarcely lives who has not some ideal that has been,
or is to be, put into outward expression. And the poet
has it truly – "All are architects of fate" &c [etc.]. The useful
the beautiful, & the good, are the ideas sought
to be embodied, expressed, & subserved by all