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the universe is governed, we are sometimes lost 

 and bewildered, and can scarcely, or not at all, 

 discern the lines by which pain, and sorrow, and 

 vice fall in with a scheme directed to the strictest 

 right and greatest good, we yet find no room to 

 faint or falter ; knowing that these are the dark- 

 est and most tangled recesses of our knowledge ; 

 that into them science has as yet cast no ray of 

 light ; that in them reason has as yet caught 

 sight of no general law by which we may securely 

 hold : while, in those regions where we can see 

 clearly, where science has thrown her strongest 

 illumination upon the scheme of creation ; where 

 we have had displayed to us the general laws 

 which give rise to all the multifarious variety of 

 particular facts ; we find all full of wisdom, and 

 harmony, and beauty : and all this wise selection 

 of means, this harmonious combination of laws, 

 this beautiful symmetry of relations, directed, 

 with no exception which human investigation 

 has yet discovered, to the preservation, the dif- 

 fusion, the well-being of those living things, 

 which, though of their nature we know so little, 

 we cannot doubt to be the worthiest objects of 

 the Creator's care. 



FINIS. 



