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mineral, Vegetable, animal, and human forms which dwell 

 upon their surfaces. If there has been any error in the fore- 

 going reasonings, it has probably been an error in. the form 

 rather than in the principles of our conclusions, and the error 

 therefore does not essentially effect the main object contem- 

 plated in this disquisition. But of the truth of the position to 

 which we have arrived by this analytical process, from ulti- 

 mates to origins, or from effects to causes, additional evidences 

 will hereafter incidentally occur as we proceed, by an opposite 

 and synthetical process, from causes to effects. The two pro- 

 cesses will serve as mutual correctives of each other ; and by 

 the aid of both united, we hope to somewhat enlarge our 

 truthful conceptions in relation to those principles, laws, and 

 operations of the universe without, which naturally lie beyond 

 the province of mathematics and ocular demonstration, but 

 which, nevertheless, have their counterparts, representatives, 

 and exponents in the universe within. 



