450 State Boakd op AcKicrLTUKu, &c. 



NATURAL LAWS AND THEIR RELATIONS 

 TO THE FARMER. 



BY HON. F. D. DOUGLAS, OF WHITING. 



The most superlicial observer of the phenomena of nature 

 cannot fail to recognize the evidence of intenio:ent design 

 which pervades all its works. Order reigns supreme. No 

 chance event, however trifling, unpreceded by its appropri- 

 ate cause, ever disturbs the harmony of its operations. The 

 relation between cause and effect is unvarying, and may be 

 computed with mathematical precision when the flrst is fully 

 comprehended. A continuous chain of relationship of 

 causes and consequences extends throughout all nature, unit- 

 ing her works into one harmonious whole. 



" From Nature's chain, whatever link j'ou strilic. 

 Tenth or ten-thousandth, breaks the chain alike." 



UNIVERSAL ORDER THE RESULT OF tJNIVEESAL LAW. 



Universal order only results from the operation of univer- 

 sal law. The most minute natural phenomenon is just as 

 completely the result of its operations as the revolution of 

 the planets in their orbits. The same law which impels a 

 drop of water to assume a globular form, also moulded the 

 earth into the same form at the dawn of creation. The 



