280 Natural TJicology. 



there were nothing in nature to meet the demands 

 of instinct. 



Conscience is the moral monitor and ruler of man, 

 and there is no peace for him but in following its 

 commands. It not only brings punishment for 

 wrong-doing by its own action, but it does this 

 chiefly by a foreboding of other punishment to 

 come. The idea of futurity seems ever linked with 

 it. It is common to man in all places and in all 

 ages. By no other characteristic is the race so 

 completely one. It is the voice within all men that 

 not only demands the right and forbids the wrong, 

 but suggests relations to some Being from whom we 

 cannot escape, that can give rewards and inflict 

 punishment. It becomes, therefore, the corner- 

 stone on which rests our belief in God as our moral 

 Governor, and of the immortality of the soul. As 

 we infer the being of God from design, and then 

 judge of His natural attributes by the variety and 

 nature of His works ; as we recognize His power to 

 provide, in the constitution of matter and in its col- 

 location, for the satisfaction of our intellectual and 

 emotional nature ; as we see that He has made us 

 with powers and faculties capable of improvement, 

 and has laid in the constitution of things a foundation 

 for that unlimited improvement by giving us power 

 over nature, the faculty of speech and the ability 

 to transmit knowledge from one generation to 

 another as in all this we recognize a God having 

 like attributes with ourselves, but infinite in degree, 

 so in the nature of conscience implanted in man, we 



