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liearing which this doctrine may have upon human 

 interests. "WTiat we are at present concerned 

 with is the simple fact, that Morals — that part of 

 the system of things which seemed least under 

 uatiu-al regulation or law — is as thoroughly as- 

 C( rtained to be wholly so, as the arrangements of 

 the heavenly bodies. 



Now we have here two most remarkable truths. 

 The wondrous masses which people the Mighty 

 Void are under the control of natural law. The 

 workings of the little world of the human mind — 

 the opposite extreme of the system — are under 

 law likewise. We have thus the character of the 

 Kmits of the system fixed. So far we proceed upon 

 solid ground. Now it has been seen that pheno- 

 mena precisely the same as the formation and 

 lurrangement of worlds take place daily before our 

 eyes, under the influence of the laws of matter, 

 showing that the whole cosmogony might have 

 been efiected — proving, indeed, that it was effected 

 — by the Divine will acting in that manner. 

 Having attained this point, we are called upon 

 to remember the many appearances of unity in 

 nature ; how, when we take a sufficiently wide 

 view, there is nothing discrepant and exceptive in 

 it ; how a noble and affecting simplicity breathes 

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