UNITY OF DESIGN. 570 



not discern, in our spiritual constitution, the traces 

 of higher powers, to which those we now possess 

 are but preparatory; some embryo faculties which 

 raise us above this earthly habitation ? Have we 

 not in the imagination, a power but little in har- 

 mony with the fetters of our bodily organs ; and 

 bringing within our view purer conditions of being, 

 exempt from the illusions of our senses and the 

 infirmities of our nature, our elevation to which 

 will eventually prove that all these unsated desires 

 of knowledge, and all these ardent aspirations after 

 moral good, were not implanted in us in vain ? 



Happily there has been vouchsafed to us, from a 

 higher source, a pure and heavenly light to guide 

 our faltering steps, and animate our fainting spirit, 

 in this dark and dreary search ; revealing those 

 truths which it imports us most of all to know ; 

 giving to morality higher sanctions ; elevating our 

 hopes and our affections to nobler objects tlian 

 belong to earth, and inspiring more exalted themes 

 of thanksgiving and of praise. 



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