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YAUCANSoN forming his automations. Reckon up tlir 

 number of steps from the smith that causes the anvil io 

 groan, to REAUMUR anatomizing iire. 



Do these varieties arise from any real difference 

 is between human souls, independently on tlie organiza-* 

 tion of the body ? 



We shall iif't think so, if we pay a due attention to* 

 health, and sickness, to constitution and manner, of liv- 

 ing, to climate, and education. 



You may perceive what a multitude of consequences- 

 a mathematician derives from a very simple principle : 

 place this same principle in the hands of a man of the 

 lower class, it will remain barren, and not be produc- 

 tive of the smallest truth. 



May not the number of just consequences which dif- 

 ferent minds deduce from the same principle, serve as a 

 foundation for constructing a psychometer upon ; and; 

 may we not presume that one time or other we shall be 

 enabled to measure spirits as we now do bodies ? 



But the scale of the creation does not terminate at 

 man. Another universe commences there, whose extent, 

 perhaps, compared to that of this-, is as the space of the 

 solar vortex to the capacity of a nut. 



There shine the CELESTIAL HIERARCHIES, like 

 glittering STARS; 



There from all .parts the angels, archangels, seraphim, 

 cherubim, thrones, virtues, principalities, domini&ns^ 

 powers, cast forth their radiant beams. 



In tire centre of these august spheres, shines gloriously 

 the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, the EAST above, whence 

 all the other stars borrow their light and splendor. 



Ye planetary worlds ! celestial hierarchies ! you sink 

 into annihilation hi the presence of the LOUD : your 

 existence is by KIM: HE is THAT HE is: HE alone 

 possesses the plenitude of being : you enjoy but the re- 

 ikction of it. Your perfections are streams; the -|#-- 



