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if we look at the power of this study to develop 

 the perceptive faculties if we look at the accuracy 

 of its processes, and the grandeur of its results and 

 above all, if we look at these varied forms, as the 

 material expression of the thought of God it comes 

 to us with a force that needs no special plea to sus- 

 tain it, that Natural History is deserving all the 

 labor men have ever bestowed upon it, as a means 

 of training the intellectual powers, and as one of the 

 most delightful fields for their exercise. 



