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to enable them — by visiting gratuitously their Museum, 

 to contemplate at a glance the majestic and omnipotent 

 works of the Great Architect of the universe, in periods 

 the most remote, as revealed by the general wreck of 

 matter, exhumed from the vast charnel-house of Nature, 

 by the labours of the Geologist or the Miner, or of the 

 varied forms of animated beings who now tenant this 

 planet, nay, the very materials of which this globe is com- 

 posed — cannot fail to produce on the minds of the most 

 untutored observers a correspondent degree of elevation 

 of thought and purity of sentiment, and, by leading them 

 to form juster conceptions of their own relation to that 

 Being to whom they owe every thing, become wiser and 

 better members of the community. 



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