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 ON UNITY OF SYSTEM. 



(Continued from page 74.) 



The following notes, commencing with geology, are put together in order 

 to indicate the outlines of the system to which this law is applicable, and 

 will serve as an introduction to a more detailed account of the variety of 

 instances in which it is manifest. 



The law of Nature before mentioned being applied to the Bible, is found 

 to be in exact accordance therewith, and it is obvious that they are both 

 characterized by the same beautiful simplicity, and are both parts of one 

 system, and both partial revelations of the plan on which God has ordained 

 creation. The acquaintance with one, as it advances, confirms and illustrates 

 the other, and the same means have conduced to the progressive under- 

 standing of both in the latter times. Though the knowledge of Nature 

 and that of the Bible are continually increasing, yet they are both suited 

 to all epochs, and nations, and periods of life, and both contain much of 

 what interests children, and of what is beyond the human understanding. 



The progressive study of Nature and of the Bible always corrects and 

 modifies the earlier impressions, many of which are successively found to 

 be erroneous, and are designed to be so, for an enlarged acquaintance with 

 Nature and with the Bible is quite unsuited to the early ages of mankind, c " 

 to uncivilized nations, and to children, though all these can understand as 

 much of them as it concerns them to know, and what is therefore specially 

 adapted to them. 



Till about a century ago system was hardly applied to any of the natural 

 sciences, nor was Nature often appealed to by experiments or proofs, but 

 since that time the progress has been very great, and shews as it increases 

 that there is far more yet undiscovered, and that the knowledge of system 

 is still very imperfect, though the appliance of system is now becoming more 

 and more necessary. 



The beauty of the laws of Nature, with all their modifications and 

 adaptations, is year by year more apparent and more admired, and they 

 are now divided into very numerous branches, and each of the latter is 

 sufficient for the study of one man. These laws, and the laws which are 

 developed in the Bible from the beginning to the end, are equally laws 

 of God, and indeed the same laws, though differently applied, and they 

 are therefore more or less disregarded by every one who neglects the study 

 of the Bible, or the investigation of Nature. And, as a knowledge of one 

 is in some degree dependant on that of the other, an acquaintance with 

 both is especially requisite for those who profess to know or to teach either 

 of them. Any adding to, or taking away from the laws of Nature, would 

 destroy their efficiency, or the perception of their perfectness; and the same 

 * I cannot admit this, though I have no doubt the writer means "well. — F. O. Morris. 



