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familiar to us, is so little in comparison of what we know not, that 

 there remains an illimitable scope for our inquiries and discoveries ; 

 and every step we take serves to enlarge our capacities, and give us 

 still more noble and just ideas of the power, wisdom, and goodness of 

 God. This marvellous universe is so full of wonders, so teems with 

 objects of latent beauty, that perhaps eternity alone will open up and 

 develop sufficient opportunities to enable us to survey and admire and 

 appreciate them all. 



" And lives the man, whose universal eye 

 Has swept at once th' unbounded scheme of things ; 

 Mark'd their dependence so, and firm accord, 

 As with unfaltering accent to conclude 

 That this availeth nought ? Has any seen 

 The mighty chain of beings, lessening down 

 From infinite perfection to the brink 

 Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! 

 From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns ? 

 Till then, alone let zealous praise ascend, 

 And hymns of holy wonder, to that Power, 

 Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, 

 As on our smiling eyes his servant sun." THOMSON. 



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