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conscious of the close connection. How few organisms 

 are aware that if this connection were broken for a mo- 

 ment the effect would be fatal. That broken connection 

 is death to the organism. The more man knows, of 

 the laws of this connection, the better he will be en- 

 abled to so adjust himself to the overpowering forces 

 of nature, as to make his correspondence therewith one 

 of immense benefit to himself. This adjustment is not 

 only personal to himself, but must be done largely 

 through the race, and the social units, which have inte- 

 grated during the existence of man. by an unconscious 

 law of nature, by which, like units, inorganic and 

 organic, are brought together, in forms like the solar 

 system, and organisms of life. Human societies, like 

 tribes, states and nations, have established rules and 

 laws for their own government, without any reference, 

 of a conscious nature, to the cosmic laws. They have 

 done this because they did not study natural laws ; and 

 perhaps in most instances, their intellects could not 

 pursue the study with satisfaction. The result has 

 been, that innumerable errors have been made, and are 

 now existing. Those statesmen, who have come nearer 

 than others .to formulating social laws for the guidance 

 of people, in their aggregations, according to natural 

 law. of which they were entirely ignorant, have been 

 given great public honors, and are the subjects of his- 

 tory and literature. But when Copernicus. Galileo, 

 Newton. Adam Smith, J. S. Mill. Darwin, and other 

 great thinkers, made discoveries of true science, little 

 attention was paid to them, by the people at large. 

 The first Napoleon, having at first adopted the side of 

 good government, by suppressing the French revolu- 

 tion, soon made himself a warrior, at the head of a 

 French army to harrass Europe; and when victory 



