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calling out its powers and in meeting its highest 

 conceptions of wisdom and skill in the nature and 

 ] in lection of the relations discovered. 



It is this search, this gradual unfolding of the 

 Great Master's thought, that has quickened the 

 senses and strengthened the powers of Aristotle, 

 Linnaeus, and Cuvier, and of the long list of the dead 

 and living naturalists almost equally worthy of men- 

 tion. The record of single struggles and of single 

 triumphs, had we time to recount them, would not 

 only prove to us the intensity of thought, the tax- 

 in- of the senses, and the broad generalizations 

 through which each of the great naturalists has 

 passed, but would show that every truth searched 

 out and brought within the domain of science, by 

 discovered relations to other truths, has repeated 

 this higher, this sublime truth, which transforms the 

 world from a mere machine to a living interpreter 

 of God's character to man ; this truth, that all por- 

 tions of the universe, its matter and forces, were so 

 arranged in reference to the mind of man, that 

 he might comprehend them and recognize in their 

 Builder the omnipotent Being of whom he is the 

 image. 



And what part of the physical world is there 

 which we can affirm to be beyond the power of 

 man to unravel ? 



The stars, whose light in coming to our earth has 

 darted for years through space whose distance is 

 more millions of miles than we can comprehend 

 are man's figures on the great dial-plate of the 



