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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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forth from God in spirit and truth. There is
harmonious beauty from the smallest leaf and
flower to the large, swelling bouquet, from our
earth itself to the numberless globes in the
firmamental space – as far as the eye sees, as
far as science ventures, all, small and great, is
beauty and harmony.

But if we turn to mankind, for whom we
have the highest, the holiest expression;
“created in God’s image,” man, who is able to
comprehend and admit in himself all God’s
creation, the harmony in the harmony then
seems to be defective, for at our birth we are all
equal! as creatures we have equally “no right
to demand;” yet how differently God has
granted us abilities! some few so immensely
great, others so mean! At our birth God
places us in our homes and positions; and to
how many of us are allotted the hardest
struggles! We are placed there, introduced
there – how many may not say justly: “It were
better for me that I had never been born!”

Human life, consequently – the highest here

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