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may venture to go much farther than this, and assert that 

 the material of thought which Nature furnishes is corre 

 lated to the thinking principle in man. When the Creator 

 adopted an intelligent method in the ordinations of the 

 material world, it was equivalent to a declaration of pur 

 pose to introduce an intelligent being. And when the 

 Creator had stocked the world with the materials of 

 thought, and had planted in it a being capable of under 

 standing Nature, it was the obvious purpose of the Deity 

 that Nature should be investigated, and that, by such in 

 vestigations, man should become not only wiser, but more 

 reverent, religious, and happy. 



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