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of wondrous beauty, and as he contemplates the 

 riches which surround him, he shall rise far above 

 the cold and Platonic prejudices of a degraded 

 Pantheism. He shall think with unclouded reason 

 as his monitor; and in every living thing, whether 

 the flower that sends its perfume into the air, and 

 which gladdens him with the harmonious beauty 

 of its colours; whether the insect which lives 

 its brief day in the summer sun, or the bird 

 which rings through the grove its song of melody ; 

 or still more in the contemplation of that crowning 

 intellect, which marks man as the head of cre- 

 ated things in all these he shall continue to see 

 a special creation, an adaptive, thoughtful Design, 

 an immutable species, and a Great First Cause. 



TU E END. 



B, fAWCKlT, E.XOUAYLU AND I KINTtli, KAST-LODOE, DKIFHKL1). 



