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rtiilation to the properties of matter, cannot \)t 

 derived from any property which is included i^i 

 the view th^t we have contemplated in matter, 

 lliey arc, therefore,' derived from the same 

 source to which we refer every property of 

 every order of beings, or they are an existence; 

 without a cause. Man therefore is, and must 

 be, in his mind, fashioned and fitted to all its 

 future character 'by a nature, a constitution, 

 which is coeval with his existence. This nature^ 

 this innate constitution, as in the planets of the 

 s^lar system, as in every distinct order of earths, 

 fossils, minerals, vegetables, animals, is the pro- 

 visionary furniture, derived from the one cause 

 of all, fitting it to be what it is, or shall be, 

 .when unfolded and expanded iii act, in its 

 progressive conversation with the rich scenery 

 exposed to itsview and action. 



Intellect is one grand character of mind, it 

 appears in the faculty of comparison ; in dis- 

 tinguishing genera and species by a community 

 of property, and thus arranging the infinite 

 varieties of nature ; in reasoning from effect to 

 cause, and from cause to effect ; in the disco- 

 very of abstract truths from the relation of 

 equality, proportion or similitude; in logical 

 deductions; in acquiring the knowledge of 

 means by experience, and thus, whatever end 

 be in view, selecting those me^ps ivhich are 



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