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moved, but most signally and remarkably attaches 

 to him still. It was ordained to be so; and so it 

 is. In some few instances only does this awe of 

 man subside : in extreme cases of want, for indi- 

 vidual preservation, or when protection is required. 

 In such cases, the fear or sensibility of pain, love 

 of life, or a paramount duty, becomes the stronger 

 principle, annihilating the weaker ; and the dread 

 of man's supremacy is no more. The weakest, the 

 very insect then assails him, and at times becomes the 

 victor. Does any conceivable or visible cause exist 

 from which this awe can proceed ? Does u his sub- 

 lime countenance, contemplative of the heavens," the 

 image that he bears, or his deportment, afford any 

 ascendant influence productive of this impression ? 

 In bodily power he is more weak and obnoxious to 

 injury than many that shrink from a contest with 

 him ; his natural arms and means of protection are 

 inferior often to those of the beings which he sub- 

 dues ; yet from an undefinable cause he is omnipotent 

 over all. Terror in man most commonly arises from 

 a knowledge of power, apprehension of ills from 

 accident, or fear of the evil inclinations of another. 

 What the fowls of the air, or the beasts of the field 

 perceive, or are impressed with, we know not ; but 

 none of these causes can exist in a brute mind with- 

 out intelligence or experience. These are the 

 reflections of a thoughtful hour. The cause, 

 " though a man labour to seek out, yet shall he 



