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posed to do at the commencement of these lectures 

 We might have given our whole time to a single de- 

 partment ill nature. But we have chosen rather to 

 tread various paths, and from all these short excur- 

 sions we have returned with the same result. Every 

 organic being has been found to be provided for. 

 The elements are mingled by weight and measure. 

 There is order and harmony everywhere. Man 

 finds the world answering to his intellectual and 

 emotional nature, and in all its constitution encou- 

 raging him in virtue and frowning on his vice. What 

 the world does not provide for his moral nature, is 

 found in the Bible, which thus takes its place as one 

 of the natural provisions for his wants. The moral 

 law of the Bible, and the constitution of nature, de- 

 mand from him the same course of action. The 

 two revelations are one in their teaching, so that 

 we close as we commenced, by adopting the senti- 

 ment of him who founded this Institute ; that 



" The most certain and most important part of Phi- 

 losophy (is) that which shows the connection between 

 God's revelations and the knowledge of good and evil 

 implanted by Him in our nature and that there is 

 a conformity between Natural Religion and that of 

 our Saviour? 



THE END. 



