.520 THE SENSORIAL FUNCTIONS. 



reasoning, in capacity of progressive improvement, 

 he leaves all other animals at an immeasurable 

 distance behind. He alone enjoys in perfection 

 the gift of utterance ; he alone is able to clothe his 

 thoughts in words ; in him alone do we find im- 

 planted the desire of examining every department 

 of nature, and the power of extending his views 

 beyond the confines of this globe On him alone 

 have the high privileges been bestowed of recog- 

 nising and of adoring the Power, the Wisdom, and 

 the Goodness of the Author of the Universe, from 

 whom his being has emanated, to whom he owes 

 all the blessings which attend it, and by whom 

 he has been taught to look forward to brighter 

 skies and to purer and more exalted conditions of 

 existence. Heir to this high destination, Man 

 discards all alliance with the beasts that perish ; 

 confiding in the assurance that the dissolution of 

 his earthly frame destroys not the germ of immor- 

 tality which has been implanted within him, and 

 by the developement of which the great scheme of 

 Providence here commenced, will be carried on, 

 in a future state of being, to its final and perfect 

 consummation. 



