172, STUDIES OF NATURE.' 



" every thing it meets : but no one can fee it fall, 

 " can fee it ftrike, can fee' it return. The winds 

 *' are invifible, though we fee well the ravages 

 " which they every day commit, and feel their in- 

 *' fluence the moment that they begin to blow. If 

 " there be any thing in Man that partakes of the 

 " divine Nature, it is his foul. There can be no 

 *' doubt that this is his direfting, governing prin- 

 *' ciple, neverthelefs, it is impoffible to fee it. From 

 *' all this be inftrufted not to defpife things invi- 

 *' fible: be inftruded to acknowledge their powers 

 *' in their eiïeâ:s, and to honour the Deity.'* 



Neivton, who purfued his refearches into the 

 Laws of Nature fo profoundly, never pronounced 

 the name of GOD, without moving his hat, and 

 otherwife expreflfing the moft devout refpeft. 

 He took pleafure in recalling this fublime idea, 

 even in his moments of conviviality, and con- 

 fidcred it as the natural bond of union among all 

 Nations. Corneille le Briiyn, the Dutch Painter, 

 relates, that happening to dine one day at his 

 table, in company with feveral other foreigners, 

 Newton, when the defert was.ferved up, propofed 

 a health to the Men of every Country who believe 

 in GOD. This was drinking the health of the 

 Human Race. Is it poffible to conceive, that fo 

 many Nations, of languages and manners fo very 

 different, and, in many cafes, of an intelligence fo 



contradedj 



