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and see her charms displayed know how important a part the 

 varying colours bear in the adornment of the landscape, each 

 season presenting its own peculiar beauties of colouring, from 

 the contrast between the snows and dark earth and vegetation 

 of winter to the varieties of red and gold which autumn affords. 

 The sky above us, whether as is unhappily too commonly the 

 case in our climate completely covered with clouds, or whether 

 its clear blue expanse be only diversified by the glowing sun, or 

 by the silvery moon and myriad stars that gleam bright and 

 beauteous in its tranquil and pellucid depths, furnishes us with 

 every variety and tint of colouring. Whatever its mood may be, 

 whether of sunshine or shade, calm or tempest, it attracts our 

 gaze, not less admiringly so when the storm piles cloud upon 

 cloud in wild and majestic confusion, than when the reflex of 

 golden brilliancy derived from the rays of the setting sun, is 

 mirrored forth from every fleecy cloud, and the whole heavens 

 seem pregnant with glory, as still evening prepares to pillow its 

 head upon the lap of night. The charm of an absolutely cloud- 

 less sky is felt only on the first experiences of it, when it has all 

 the force of novelty and therefore of variety. After a short 

 period of perfectly clear sky, the eye wearies of the monotony, 

 and longs for the diversity in the aspect of the heavens afforded 

 by our Enghsh clouds. 



The Supreme Being, a Ceeator, and Lovee or the Beautiful. 



All the most abstruse mathematical theories and problems 

 which it has taken the mind of man long ages to discover and 

 elaborate in his inner reasonings are found worked out to the 

 utmost exactitude in this immense, complicated and intricate 

 machine, the Universe. No mistake or inaccuracy is to be found 

 in its mechanical working, no unpunctuality, irregularity or dis- 

 order. The Master Mind of the Omniscient and Omnipotent 

 Being who planned, created and preserves it. understood all the 

 principles of (ieometry, of Mechanics, of the Highest Mathe- 

 matics, and framed the worlds upon them. Our most extended 

 knowledge is less than a drop in the ocean of infinite knowledge 

 and wisdom displayed in Creation. We boast ourselves upon the 

 recent advances made in the domain of physical science and our 

 discoveries of nature's powers. We must not overlook the fact, 

 however, that they are discoveries and not inventions. These 

 forces have been at work in the universe all along, and we have 

 only just found them out. There may be yet undiscovered 

 powers which may effect further revolutions of knowledge and 

 material progress, but whatever knowledge we acquire, it is only 

 second-hand. We can find out no truth that is not in visible 

 operation in all its completeness already. The Master-working 

 ;Mind has been there before us, and it is only in His light that 



