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applications, to which our reasoning powers are in- 

 competent, that nature appears complicated: the 

 moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a po- 

 sition from which we can take a commanding view, 

 though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to 

 recognise that sublime simplicity on which the mind 

 rests satisfied that it has attained the truth. 



