Contents. 



LECTURE VIII. 



PROVISION FOR THE INTELLECT OF MAN IN THE STRUCTURE 

 OF MINERALS AND LAWS OF CHEMICAL COMBINATION. 



Preservation of man requires preservation of other beings. The whole plan to 

 be grasped. Field of mind. Animals remain the same. Man's physical 

 nature conditional for his higher. Provision for our personality to be 

 expected. Personality of the Creator. Mind seeks for the laws of nature. 

 Physical good never sought for by the great leaders in science. Search for 

 thought among ancient inscriptions. Physical and intellectual appetite com- 

 pared. Mind of man and the order of nature from the same Creator. 

 Nature the great teacher. Her models perfect Proofs of the provision for 

 mind. Minerals. Mind must be taxed. Language of Minerals. Our work 

 is to translate it. Perfectly adapted to the human mind. Crystalline forms. 

 Progress of mind in unfolding them. Fundamental forms. Effect of crys- 

 talline force in the crust of the earth. Beauty of crystals for man. Taylor's 

 description of the Russian jewels. Bible language. Chemical relation of the 

 elements. Power of the chemist. Condition of progress. Beyond the reach 

 of development theories. Man has increased in knowledge, but not in mental 

 power. Answers which nature gives aia 



LECTURE IX. 



PROVISION FOR MAN'S INTELLECT IN THE RELATIONS OF 

 ORGANIC BEINGS AND IN THE CRUST. OF THE EARTH. 



Kingdom of life. Mathematical law continued Orders of plants. Animals 

 Fossils. All form one picture. Science discovered. Manifestation of 

 thought in nature. Astronomy. Enthusiasm of Naturalist. Geology. 

 Present changes. Its key. Provisions for man's physical wants presuppose 

 his intellectual nature Crust of the Earth shows design. Man multiplies 

 his powers. Properties of metals. Gold and Silver. Platinum, Mercury, 

 Iron. Loadstone-Metals essential toman's progress. Fuel for man alone 

 Power which Chemistry gives him. Plants and Animals made to minister 

 to his physical wants through his intellectual power 231 



LECTURE X. 



PROVISION FOR THE EMOTIONAL NATURE AND THE VARIED 

 INTELLECTUAL TASTES AND POWERS OF MEN. 



Love of the beautiful Provision for it in nature. Taste. Fine Arts founded 

 upon nature. Poetry Bible language. Paintirg and sculpture. Music. 

 Conditions necessary for it. Beauty of outline and color. Clouds Crystals. 

 Plants. Increase of beauty in leaf and flower. Double flowers Micros- 

 copic animals. Corals. Jelly-fishes. Shells. Their beauty not for them- 

 selves. Insects. Distribution of their color Vertebrates Beauty of fossils. 

 Grandeur and sublimity. Emotional nature perfect in man ages ago. 

 Different intellectual tastes provided for. Advance in science and art thus 

 secured. Sciences yet to be unfolded 331 



