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If the tree can not grow without the sun, it may be consid- 

 ered equally certain that nature as a whole, and hence, also, as 

 to its component parts, from greatest to most minute, has no 

 'power of development or motion in and of itself. Hence all 

 power, as well as its directive influence, must be from above 

 nature, and hence from God ; and hence all stellar systems, 

 solar systems, worlds, minerals, vegetables, animals, and even 

 animalcules, were created and are governed, not only by the 

 remote and indirect, but by the immediate and direct, agency of 

 God! 



These are among the considerations w r hich we think com- 

 pletely overthrow the pantheistic speculations with which 

 much of the philosophy of the day is more or less impreg- 

 nated. 



The diagram, also, by presenting a succession of continually 

 expanding circles, all having one center, and being constituted 

 after one principle, presents a clear and concise illustration of 

 the doctrines of Series, Degrees, and Correspondences, and will 

 serve thus to fix permanently in the mind a true idea of the 

 complexly-unitary constitution, and harmoniously interblend- 

 ing movements of the universe, as expressive of the Love, 

 Wisdom, and infinite internal harmonies of its DIVINE 

 AUTHOR. 



