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Law of Duty ; that He who regulates corporeal 

 things by properties of attraction and affinity 

 and assimilating power, is the same being who 

 regulates the actions and conditions of men, by 

 the influence of the feeling of responsibility, the 

 perception of right and wrong, the hope of hap- 

 piness, the love of good. 



The conviction that the Divine attributes which 

 we are taught by the study of the * material 

 world, and those which we learn from the con- 

 templation of man as a responsible agent, belong 

 to the same Divine Being, will be forced upon 

 us, if we consider the manner in which all the 

 parts of the universe, the corporeal and intel- 

 lectual, the animal and moral, are connected 

 with each other. In each of these provinces 

 of creation we trace refined adaptations and 

 arrangements which lead us to the Creator and 

 Director of so skilful a system ; but these pro- 

 vinces are so intermixed, these different trains of 

 contrivance so interwoven, that we cannot, in our 

 thoughts, separate the author of one part from the 

 author of another. The Creator of the Heavens 

 and of the Earth, of the inorganic and of the 

 organic world, of animals and of man, of the 

 affections and the conscience, appears inevitably 

 to be one and the same God. 



We will pursue this reflection a little more into 

 detail. 



1. The Atmosphere is a mere mass of fluid 



