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increase with his skiil, aud attractions hitherto unobserved 

 or unheeded will every moment present themselves to his no- 

 tice. And when his judgment has thus become more exact 

 and refined, those difficulties, which at first were attended 

 with trouble and uneasiness, will now constitute no inconsi- 

 derable portion of his pleasure ; they will be to hirn so many 

 testimonies of the skill, the sagacity and invention of his au- 

 tlior, will transport him with admiration of his genius, and 

 exeite in him a reverence for every I'elic connected with his 

 memory. Thus will the young philosopher be amply repaid 

 for the obstacles that impeded his progress, by the enjoy- 

 ment of a pure delight, more tranquil, indeed, but not less 

 satisfactory than that rapidity of impulse with which we are 

 sometimes hurried along by the more commanding features of 

 the material creation. But when the soul is led along to take 

 a more distinct survey of the earth, to observe its various 

 climes, each amply supplied with those productions best 

 suited to the nature of the country, and the accommodation 

 of its inhabitants; when it beholds the numberless tribes of 

 animals that people the distant regions of the earth, the 

 pathless ocean, and the purer element that surrounds us';* 

 when it discovers the myriads of inhabitants on every leaf of 

 every plant, and remarks the perfect constitution and regular 

 form with which each of them has been gifted ; the young 

 philosopher seems then to have acquired a new sense, he has 

 jvery Avhere ap opportunity of tracing out beauties imper* 



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