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Mrs. Somerville, in her work on the material sciences, says : 



" Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no longer 

 regarded as an ultimate principle, may be resolved into a yet 

 more general cause, embracing every law that regulates the mate- 

 rial world." 



And again, speaking of discoveries, she says : 



" The experiments made on light, heat, electricity and mag- 

 netism, show an occult relation between all these agents, which 

 probably will one day be revealed, and in the mean time it opens 

 a noble field of experimental research to Philosophers of the 

 present, perhaps future ages." 



Wiseman says, in his work on Philosophy : 



" Were it given unto us to contemplate God's works in the vis- 

 ible and in the moral world, not as we now see them in shreds 

 and fragments, but as woven together into the great web of uni- 

 versal harmony ; could our minds take in each part thereof with 

 its general and particular connections, relations, and appliances, 

 there can be no doubt but religion as established by Him, would 

 appear to enter and fit so completely and so necessarily into the 

 great plan as that all would be unraveled and destroyed if by any 

 means it should be withdrawn." 



ANALYTIC VIEW OF THE SYSTEM OF THE UNI- 

 VERSE, EXPLAINING THE SYNOPSIS PAGE 3* 



By referring to page third, we find all things united under one 

 great head, the Deity. He is all in all ; and from this Source, 

 we begin to classify, descending analytically to the most distant 

 and subordinate parts, according to the theory of division and 



I cannot hope to give every one a correct idea of this important subject, by merely 

 reading it over once,ibr we have here associated together subjects which, perhaps, have 

 been by many always considered as entiiely distinct : perhaps it requires too great exer- 

 tion of the mind, at first, to transfer itself from the Divine to the mental world ; and then 

 again from the spiritual and invisible powers of mind down to the tangible things of ma- 

 terial creation. But if we would understand science, we must accustom ourselves to this 

 wide range of thought ; we must see the little and the great, if we would bear even a 

 faint resemblance to Him who sees all things in their true relations, and Who, while Ho 

 directs worlds and systems of worlds in their course, permits not a sparrow to fall to the 

 ground without His notice 



