nature's school-eoom. '^51 



why or how came he to be trusted with his terrible 

 teeth and claws ? 



Nature is in itself a beautiful, and, perhaps, a 

 terrible study. The bowels of the earth contain 

 truths as mysterious as they are opposed to all 

 mortal doctrines in regard to sundry beliefs. A 

 terrible destruction and the most violent changes, 

 where floods (not one flood) and fires have caused 

 disruption, dissolution, and partial decay, — all this 

 is visible, — then who or where is the man or con- 

 clave of men who shall dare to make sure of the 

 future ? 



THE^ END. 



