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fixed globe, the attraftion of which gives to the 

 planets one half of their movements. Had the}'-, 

 who believed it to be conduced round the World 

 by Apollo, an idea lefs fublime ? They imagined, 

 at leaft, that the attention of a God pervaded the 

 Earth, together with the rays of the Orb of Day. 

 It is Science which has dragged down the chafte 

 Diana from her noclurnal car : flie has banilhed 

 the Hamadryads from the antique forefhs, and the 

 gentle Naiads from the fountains. Ignorance had 

 invited the Gods, to partake of it's joys and it's 

 woes; to Man's wedding, and to his grave: Science 

 difcerns nothing in either, except the elements 

 merely. She has abandoned Man to his fellow, 

 and thrown him upon the Earth as into a defert. 

 Ah ! whatever may be the names which (he gives 

 to the different kingdoms of Nature, celeftial fpi- 

 rits, undoubtedly, regulate their combinations fo 

 ingenious, fo varied, and fo uniform ; and Man, 

 who could beftow nothing upon himfelf, is not 

 the only being in the Univerfe who partakes of in- 

 telligei'ice. 



It is not to the illumination of Science that the 

 Deity communicates the mod profound fenti- 

 ment of his attributes, but to our ignorance. 

 Night conveys to the mind a much grander idea 

 of infinity than all the glare of day. In the day- 

 time, I fee but one Suq ; during the night I dif- 



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