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they were sufficient of themselves, and with- 

 out the intervention of the First Cause, to do 

 all in all, and keep the whole machine and 

 all its parts together and at work. Instead 

 of regarding Him as receding further and 

 further from our observation, 1 my desire is to 

 bring Him nearer and nearer to us, that we 

 may see and acknowledge Him every where, 

 as the main-spring of the universe, which 

 animates, as it were, and upholds it in all its 

 parts and motions 



Lives through all life, extends through all extent, 

 Spreads undivided, operates unspent. 



Maintaining his own laws by his own universal 

 action upon and by his cherubim of glory. 

 WITHOUT HIM THEY CAN DO NOTHING. 



I cannot conclude this Introduction without 

 returning my grateful acknowledgments to 

 the Board of Curators of the Hunterian 

 Museum, for their kind permission to have 

 drawings taken of such subjects in that 

 superb collection as might answer my pur- 



1 See above, p. xxii. 



