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all their corresponding motor powers in the nerves, in proportion to their 

 increased use and energy of action; wherever, in fact, any organ, or set 

 of organs, becomes more highly developed in any single species, not only 

 in the vertebrate world, but in all classes of the animal kingdom, from 

 sponges up to man, though it may be beyond the power of our microscopes 

 to discover in the lowest acritous orders, there we may reckon with cer- 

 tainty that there is an increased proportionate development of the corres- 

 ponding parts of the nervous system. 



Uppingham, September ^th., 1857. 



ON UNITY OF SYSTEM. 



(Continued from page 225.) 



The intermediate period before mentioned, or the visible and natural 

 creation is by, and the image of, the beginning, and to be for ever associated 

 with the beginning hereafter, or rather then to be for Christ, who, when 

 all things are subject to him, or when He has filled all things, will again, 

 it is said, re-assume the state which was His before the creation. Thus 

 all creatures have two states, one visible, the other as yet invisible; one 

 to cease or be changed, the other eternal; the first as the means for the 

 second; and the deviation from the way between the first and the second 

 in man, may very generally be defined to be the using of the means as 

 an end instead of for the end, and is, as we shall see, prefigured in the 

 successive epochs of animals before the existence of man. We are told that 

 the earth is to be restored, and to be possessed by man in his future 

 new existence, and thence it might be inferred, were it not expressly so 

 mentioned, that the intermediate part, or all creatures between the dust 

 of the earth and man, will also be renewed, for all have one origin, and 

 are of the same substance, and Christ partook also of the same, and thus 

 the eternal life become the visible life, in order that the latter might 

 finally cease in the former. 



Every individual creature, like the whole visible creation, has its origin 

 and support or body, and all its powers and faculties in Christ, and is 

 thus in some degree His image, or the manifestation of His power and wisdom. 

 With this persuasion we always have God, as it were, sensibly before our 

 eyes, with the remembrance that he is equally present by His works in 

 all times and places. He gives to every creature its peculiar structure, 

 form, beauty, and economy, and its perfect adaptation to its habits, or 

 the means to the end, and continually directs all its operations, and thereby 

 we often see in the results of the instinct of minute creatures, much greater 

 wisdom than man can devise. His own power will be almost hidden till 



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