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most adoiing thoiiglits on the subject*?" And this 

 salutarv tendency it pos^sses in common with every 

 other branch of natural knowledge : for such is the 

 consmnmate perfection of <\ll the works of the Creator, 

 that whatever path of inquiry we may select for our 

 especial investigation, if followed in a right spirit, will 

 conduct us to the *• Foimt:iin of living waters," — to the 

 source of all Truth and Wisdom. 



From niTriads take thv choice. 



In all that lives a guide to God is gireii ; 

 Ever thou hear'st some Angel -guardian's voice, 



"When Nature speaks of Heaven I f 



Thus, in the impressive Language of Dr. Chalmers, 

 while the Telescope enables us to see a system in every 

 star, the ^Horoscope unfolds to us a world in every 

 atom. The one instructs us that this mighty globe, 

 with the whole burthen of its people and its coimtries, 

 is but a grain of sand in the vast field of immensity — 

 the other, that every atom may harbour the tribes and 

 famih'es of a busy population. The one shews us the 

 insignificance of the world we inhabit — the other re- 

 deems it from all its insignificance, for it tells us, that 

 in the leaves of every forest, in the flowers of eyery 



* Leigh Hunt' 5 •• Yiat to the Zoological Gardens," 1S36. 

 t "The Guardian Angel." bv Sir E. B. Lvtton. Bart. 



