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some useful and beneficial end. If we examine a 

 complex piece of mechanism, and observe the regu- 

 larity of its operations and movements, although we 

 may not perhaps comprehend the utility of each part, 

 and the particular action of each wheel or spring, 

 yet in considering that from the motions of the whole 

 machine some great effect is produced, we shall 

 readily conclude that none of its parts are useless. 



These observations, my dear Sir, and a number of 

 others which naturally result from a survey of the 

 creation, have an evident tendency to improve the 

 mind and ameliorate the heart. They all concur to 

 illuminate the understanding, and to inspire the most 

 exalted sentiments of morality and religion ; to in- 

 struct the ignorant, to check presumption, and con- 

 found Atheism. 



The volume of Nature, my dear Sir, is the Book of 

 God, ever open to the eyes of mankind. 



In contemplating " the whole magnificence of Hea- 

 ven and Earth," with all the numerous and varied as- 

 semblage of beings that people the immense and su- 

 perb mansion, we every where view the reflection of 

 his glory. All things, animate and inanimate, in per- 

 fect unison, and in language more emphatical tha 

 that of words proclaim, 



END. 



JtAMJfS CUNUEE, 

 LOKDOH. 



