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quent importance of placing our actions under the 

 guidance of that reason which distinguishes man 

 from the brute creation, and was kindly given him 

 as a lamp to his feet, and a light to his path ? 



5 Tis Reason our Great Master holds so dear ; 

 'Tis Reason's injured rights His wrath resents ; 

 'Tis Reasons's voice obey'd His glorious crown ; 

 To give lost Reason life, He poured his own. 



CHAP. XVI. 



fyJANGES OF THE SEASONS, AND VICISSITUDES 

 OF DAY AND NIGHT. 



' These, as they change, Almighty Father these 

 Are but the varied God. The rolling year 

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THE Earth, surrounded by the Atmosphere, re- 

 mains not at rest ; for, as we observed in a preced- 

 ing chapter, the latter is made to revolve with the 

 former in its diurnal motion, and to circle with it in 

 its annual course. 



Before proceeding farther in our researches, we 

 will therefore, turn our attention for a few minutes 

 to this two-fold motion of the earth, which although 

 it would not, but for external objects, be perceptible 

 t<rour senses, is rendered extremely important, on 

 account of the beneficial effects it produces. 



