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is separated from reason.* Sure we are, that to 

 whatever source we attribute the effects we witness, 

 their adaptation to the purposes, which the several 

 agents have in view, is very remarkable. And we 

 feel convinced that there is some other wisdom be- 

 sides their own, to which we must turn for a true 

 explanation of the mystery, although we may not 

 immediately discern the Hand that guides and regu- 

 lates their deportment. 



(16.) And surely he is but little worthy of the 

 name of a naturalist, who rests satisfied with this 

 conclusion, without making any deductions calcu- 

 lated to improve and benefit himself. If the divine 

 wisdom and goodness are thus manifest in the 

 works of Creation,")* do we not see stamped on these 

 works the character and disposition of Him, who is 

 our own Maker ? If, especially, so much vigilant 

 care is exercised on behalf of the beasts that perish, 

 is there not conclusive evidence in respect of the 

 same or greater care being felt for man, made after 

 the divine image ? There is no immediate impress 

 made upon us, as on the lower animals, to keep us 

 in the right way, because of our superior faculties 



* Authors generally, who have written on this subject, seem 

 not sufficiently to have distinguished between intelligence and 

 reason. The former is found in many animals, and, when pre- 

 sent, is generally in an inverse ratio to instinct ; but reason, pro- 

 perly so called, is confined to man. See, in further illustration of 

 this point, Coleridge's " Friend" vol. i. Essay, 5. 



f The Apostle tells us that, " The invisible things of God 

 from the Creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood 

 by the things that are made, even his eternal power and God- 

 head." Rom. i. 20. 



