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another, in the progress of any complete circle of unfoldings, 

 involves a circle or system of a minuter kind, until we get 

 down to the physiological functions of the organism of an 

 ephemeron, to the circuit of blood and organic deposits in 

 the system of an anamalcule, or to the orbitual and axial 

 revolutions of an atom. 



It may also be said that the progression from the origin to 

 the dissolution of any system, or to its passage into another 

 form, involves the circle; and this is equally true of the 

 universe as a whole, of its included stellar and solar systems 

 and individual worlds, and of the further ramifications of crea- 

 tion, constituting the mineral, vegetable, animal, and human 

 kingdoms, together with their various genera, species, and in- 

 dividual forms, respectively. 



The minutest of these circles of movement and develop- 

 ment, are included in, and are, in some sense, dependent 

 upon, the greater, and those are in like manner included in 

 and dependent upon, still greater (which, therefore, form 

 circles of circles), and all are included in the great Circle 

 which comprehends all movements and developments in the 

 universe, from its periphery to its center, from the whole 

 unimaginable vortex of being to a single atom of matter, 

 and from the very origin to the very end of all material 

 things. 



The close of each comprehensive circle of operations marks 

 an era, not only in its own history, but also in the history of 

 its included circles, which are, to some extent, dependent upon 

 its state for their own specific states. For illustration, the 

 earth, during a single orbitual revolution, makes, to sense, 

 three hundred and sixty-five revolutions on its own axis, occa- 

 sioning the same number of repetitions of the phenomena of 

 day and night. But these days and nights, or circles of diur- 



