XXVI ADVERTISEMENT. 



of extending your views into the unbounded and 

 myfterious field of Nature, refleâ; that, after all, 

 thefe are the perceptions but of a man ; that they 

 are a mere nothing compared to that which is ; 

 that they are the Ihadows only of that Eternal 

 Truth, colleded by one who is himfelf a fhadow, 

 and that a fmall ray of that Sun of intelligence 

 which fills the Univerfe, has been playing in a 

 drop of troubled water. 



J\Iulta ahfcondita funt majora his : pauca enim vidimus operum ejus. 



There are yet hid greater things than thefe be ; for we have feen 

 but a few of his Works. Ecclesiasticus xliii. ^2^ 



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