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in the course of ages to great mutations, and of 

 this, the changes which occur on our sea-shores 

 afford an example. Such modifications are occa- 

 sioned by the chemical and physical laws which 

 the All-powerful and infinitely wise Creator of 

 the world has instituted ; and the more carefully 

 we investigate, and the more clearly we compre- 

 hend, those laws, and the extreme uniformity with 

 which they work out their various and manifold 

 results, the more must we be impressed with a 

 sense of the vastness of that Divine intelligence 

 by which those laws were formed, and by which 

 all the vast complication of results they produce 

 must have been foreseen and intended. Amid 

 the mutations of temporal things, we perceive 

 the invariable character of the laws now referred 

 to, which have acted immutably and incessantly 

 from the earliest birth-time of our planet ; and 

 in these laws we recognise their immutable 

 Author, who is without all variableness or shadow 

 of turning. 



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