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impulse ; limits and controls the duration of its productions. 

 The power comprehending, constituting, limiting, precedes 

 and exceeds the constitution, the effect, the production. 



A power then is manifested through all animated nature, 

 anterior and superior to all limited modes of being ; the 

 source of all order, or relations to life, thought, and volun- 

 tary power. 



21. But beside the relations of the parts of animated 

 beings to each other, and of individuals of the same species to 

 each other, which conduce to the continued subsistence of 

 the individual, and of the species, subject to the exertions 

 of thought and voluntary power, relations are perceived 

 throughout all nature to the well-being, the utihty, welfare, 

 and happiness of living creatures. 



22. We know from consciousness, and from analogy, 

 that the exertions of thought and voluntary power are con- 

 tinually directed to utility and happiness as their ultimate 

 objects. 



These exertions, which draw bodies without attraction, 

 sever them without repulsion, impel by communicating, not 

 pre-excited, but original self-motion, dispose and adapt 

 various parts of nature to their ends — utility and happiness. 

 The ends of tHeir exertions are therefore, in some degree, 

 similar to those of the power which has constituted the rela- 

 tions of animated form, and subjected it to their direction. 



23. As we trace mutual attractions from minute particles 

 cf solids and fluids to the wide extent of the ocean and the 

 atmosphere, to mountains and to worlds ; so relations to the 

 ntility and happiness of living beings may be traced from 

 objects of the microscope to the profundities of space ; from 

 the farina on the anthers of the wheat-blossom, to the re- 

 volutions of our planet round ihe sun. 



24. But all natural relations to the well-being of individu- 

 als and species are interwoven, and inseparably mingled 

 with those which concur to their continued subsistence. 

 AH natural relations, then, to the welfare and happiness of 

 animated beings proceed from the same source, with all 

 other relations to life, thought, and voluntary power. 



25. The relation of an organizing power to the continu- 



ance 



