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LESSONS FEOM NATUKE. [CHAP. XII. 



affirm is in fact (1) to deiiy to the First Cause the necessary 

 adequacy for producing the effects we see, and (2) to en 

 deavour to degrade Him to an order of existence lower even 

 than that of mere man, since whatever has knowledge and 

 will has personality. In a word, we learn that we and all 

 the beings we see around us have for our origin, our sus- 

 tentation, and our end, one only being GOD. 



