Can you guess the subject of this sentence?
Forever wonderful, unexplainahle, it is yet intensely, most indubitably real
—Littell's Living Age
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Life is, indeed, the 'perennial standing miracle of the universe.' ... This fact if being alive is not to be denied or questioned; if all else were doubtful, this is certain—here we are! conscious living beings, with an actual destiny in the present and in the future, the issues and the mystery whereof our deepest intuitions cannot fathom.