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ends regulated their structure in subservience to their welfare, as is 
now manifested in existing creation. 
Professor Sedgwick, in his Discourse on the Studies of the Univer- 
sity, at page 30, has the following beautiful sentence :— 
“All nature is but the manifestation of a Supreme Intelligence, and 
to no being but him to whom is given the faculty of reason, can this 
truth be known. By this faculty he becomes the lord of created 
beings, and finds all matter, organic and inorganic, subservient to his 
happiness and working together for his good. A part of what is past 
he can comprehend ; something even of the future he can anticipate ; 
and on whatever side he looks, he sees proofs, not of wisdom and 
power only, but of goodness.” 
If I for one moment thought this volume contained a single sen- 
tence that would shake in the smallest degree the religious faith of 
any person, I should for ever condemn myself; but I am thoroughly 
convinced that scientific imquiry adds greatly to the happiness of 
thinking beings. I have now only to express my gratitude to those 
friends who have so kindly given me their valuable assistance, 
being perfectly satisfied that their sentiments accord with that de- 
votional feeling, which assures us that all our endeavours, all our 
investigations are valueless, unless they tend to the honour and glory 
of God. 
Worthing. 
“The earth is the Lord’s, and all that therein is: the compass of 
the world, and they that dwell therein. 
“ For he hath founded it upon the seas: and prepared it upon the 
floods.’’—Psalm xxiv. 
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