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other and to the wants of man are strongly opposed 

 to that theory as it is generally held. 



Natural Theology, like the study of Nature in 

 general, can never be exhausted. We have in these 

 lectures been like a traveller passing through a con- 

 tinent from side to side, describing only the narrow 

 territory that comes within his own range of vision. 

 Other explorers will have new wonders to tell, and 

 whole regions are ready to unfold yet other proof 

 of the being and character of the Creator to those 

 who, in the future, shall search for them. 



WILLIAMS COLLEGE, January, 1867. 



