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dwelt upon for the Unity of creation fully suffices to 

 refute any such hypothesis, which could not indeed 

 solve the problem for us if adopted. 



This argument, I may add, does not go a step 

 beyond the affirmation of unity. All that regards 

 time, material, and method in the acts of creation may 

 be put apart, as knowledge to be reached only rela- 

 tively and remotely. What human enquiry may 

 rightly seek to attain is a larger knowledge of pheno- 

 mena, and of those correlations among them which 

 go to establish more general laws, and, by removing 

 anomalies, to give still higher conceptions of Unity in 

 the universe lofty functions in themselves of human 

 reason, and sufficient in scope to employ the genius 

 and industry of ages to come. 



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