AS RELATED TO RELIGION. 



read of Mt. Washington, of the sense of power he 

 feels who climbs the titan blocks which form that 

 grand monument of Nature's forces ? What knows 

 the man who has simply read of Niagara, of the 

 emotions of him who looks up to the bending flood, 

 and is deafened by its thunder? It is the real thing, 

 and not its description, that must be relied on to 

 convince. And if we wish to prove the strength of 

 the argument from design, must we look to those 

 wlio have only read and looked upon the same 

 unvarying surface all their lives, or to the naturalist, 

 who has been walking within the temple of Nature 

 all his life, each day opening some alcove filled 

 with new beauties and adaptations? Shall we 

 inquire respecting the landscape in the distance, of 

 him who has always walked upon the plain at the 

 base of the mountain, or of him who daily ascends 

 that mountain, and views that landscape from every 

 possible point? The common observer is like 

 Aristotle's fancied beings in tlie center of the earth 

 remaining there forever, hearing of the gods and 

 their w r orks,- but seeing the whole array of Nature 

 only as delineated in pictures of landscapes, and the 



