160 SALMONIA. 



pert superficial thinker who is generally 

 strongest in every kind of unbelief. The 

 deep philosopher sees chains of causes and 

 effects so wonderfully and strangely linked 

 together, that he is usually the last person 

 to decide upon the impossibility of any two 

 series of events being independent of each 

 other; and in science, so many natural mira- 

 cles, as it were, have been brought to light, 

 — such as the fall of stones from meteors in 

 the atmosphere, the disarming a thunder 

 cloud by a metallic point, the production of 

 fire from ice by a metal white as silver, and 

 referring certain laws of motion of the sea 

 to the moon, — that the physical inquirer is 

 seldom disposed to assert, confidently, on 

 any abstruse subjects belonging to the order 

 of natural things, and still less so on those 

 relating to the more mysterious relations of 

 moral events and intellectual natures. 



