DIFFERENT ANALOGIES IN CREATION. 1]5 
prominent features of some part of the plan of cre- 
ation; as the strong indications of something beyond 
the surface of things, and as forming a portion of some 
great system of harmonious relationship? Upon this 
point, again, the scientific world has been set at rest. 
The theoretical inference which would favour the last 
of these suppositions, has been demonstrated to be 
correct both by reason and experience ;*and we now 
know that all these resemblances are to be traced to 
one universal and consistent plan, as similar in its 
laws, as it is harmonious in its results. Here, then, is 
opened an exalted and a boundless field of design ; 
wherein the Christian philosopher is not only enabled 
to draw proofs of the Divinity from the individual 
objects, but from the system by which this endless 
diversity of forms is regulated. 
(62.) The results attending the investigation of this 
svstem of representation, having been uniform in 
every department of nature yet investigated, we 
are led to enquire, what further can be learned ?— 
whether there be still any ulterior design, for the 
instruction of man, beyond those which we have 
discovered ? and whether the knowledge thus gained 
by analysis, can be applied to the illustration of 
higher truths connected with our spiritual welfare ? 
On this point, again, the Christian philosopher will 
have no doubts. He is told in that inspired volume 
in which he at least believes, that “ we see now, as 
it were in a mirror, the glory of God reflected 
enigmatically by the things that he has made.’ * 
He is thus assured that the book of nature 
* 1 Cor. xiij. 12. See also North. Zool. Introd. ii. p. lvi. 
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