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until we shall have paid the debt of nature, is not to be cancelled by any freak of law we may conventionally establish, nor much less to be repudiated by capricious inventions. 

So I reasoned myself into a reconciliation of the matter as it stood, determined to make the best of it, seeing that I was only on probation, suspended between two elements-. the ethereal world without, and the earthy world within. Still, there is a sensation experienced when afloat in the cloud Heaven, very different from that produced by movements on the solid earth, or the sea. The very fact that a person does not - never does, feel that unpleasant sensation of vertigo incident to standing on a precipice, or looking over the side of a [[ship?]], proves that there is a special sensation, and it is one of extreme felicity, that prevails when scanning nature from an isolated point in the atmosphere.

It is a marvel, that a faculty so easily attainable, as that of aerial movements, traversing the limpid sea above our heads, and enjoying the sights and sensations so congenial to our spiritual nature, should be so much neglected. It can only be explained on the principle that the animal nature of man is more nurtured than the spiritual, that is to say, that the early training of the human faculties is too much subordinated to worldly business in the way of pecuniary acquisitions, rather than to allow a full share to the development of the higher order of spirit life, so manifest in the truly philosophical, and the truly pious. 

It would be better to stand at the head and front of the best developed species of Chimpanze, than to stand at the tail end of the species Homo, so far as excellence and spirit life was of value in the attainment of that position, so devoutly wished for, and so generally acknowledged when brought into question, concerning the final disposition of our individuality.

It is the progress of reason that civilises and refines the world, and just in proportion as that part of man's