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tended to ameliorate the condition and increase the happiness 

 of the human race, in what way, it has occurred to me, shoiild 

 our faculties be applied in obtaining further knowledge? I 

 answer, by a more dihgent study of His works, which when 

 conducted in a reverential spirit, must, in the very nature of 

 things, reveal more faUy His power and great goodness, and 

 lead us to a deeper sense of humility and thankfulness. What 

 a vast field the student of nature has before him, and how great 

 and wonderful those works are, we may gather from the words 

 of the Psalmist, " Lord, how manifold are thy works : in 

 wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is fuU of thy 

 riches." And are we not also told that when by the creation 

 of man, the great Maker of the Universe had completed His 

 labors, " He saw every thing that He had made, and behold it 

 was very good." 



