WITH SELATIO^ TO VITALITY 



various organised systems, therefore, 

 which we behold around us, are nothing more 

 than effects, produced from efficient and pro- 

 ducing causes ; they constitute the obvious 

 .and manifest images, of which these primary 

 principles and causes are the prototypes. It is 

 very true, th$l these prototypes, or principles, 

 can only be known through the medium of their 

 effects ; that through the phenomena of life, we 

 can know any thing of vitality ; through sensa- 

 tion of sensibility; through consciousness 

 of intellect ; through the works of creation, 

 that we can conceive a knowledge of the Crea- 

 tor ; or, as St. PAXIL eloquently describes it, 

 " by which the invisible things of God from the 

 creation of the world are clearly seen, being 

 understood by the things that are wade ; even his 

 eternal power and Godhead." 



The relation of power which those principles, 

 or causes, bear to the subject, or matter, on 

 which they operate, is illustrated by every 

 phenomenon produced by animated beings in 

 general. It is, for example, by the power of 

 the artist, over the subject of his art, that he is 

 enabled to convert and to model it according 

 to his will ; that the statuary has the power to 

 chisel the marble into a statue ; the painter to 

 draw figures upon the canvas ; the carpenter 

 to cut the timber and shape it,|in the form of a 

 table, &c. &c. 



