THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 89 



Mist ! Mucus ! Monad ! Mussel ! Mite ! Mam- 

 mal ! Monkey ! MAN ! ! ! We prefer to abide by 

 the grand conclusion to which all Nature guides 

 us that the same creative wisdom which regu- 

 lates and governs the smallest satellite, and the 

 largest starry world, through boundless space, 

 " has established the same law for the develop- 

 ment of every living atom, as is manifested in 

 the largest animal that inhabits this planet/' 



" The mind indeed enlighten 'd from ahove 

 Views God in all ; ascribes to the grand cause 

 The grand effect ; acknowledges with joy 

 His manner, and with rapture tastes His style. 

 But never yet did philosophic tube, 

 That hrings the planets home into the eye 

 Of Observation, and discovers, else 

 Not visible, His family of worlds, 

 Discover Him that rules them ; such a veil 

 Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth, 

 And dark in things divine. Full often, too, 

 Our wayward intellect, the more we learn 

 Of nature, overlooks her Author more ; 

 From instrumental causes proud to draw 

 Conclusions retrograde, and mad mistake. 

 But if His Word once teach us, shoot a ray 

 Through all the heart's dark chambers, and reveal 

 Truths undiscern'd but by that holy light, 

 Then all is plain. Philosophy, baptized 

 In the pure fountain of eternal love, 

 Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees 

 As meant to indicate a God to man, 

 Gives Him His praise, and forfeits not her own." 



