Offices in Nature, x. Sunday. — Christ the Judze of the World. Quadrupeds— 

 Their Characteristics. Their Bodily Organs. The Bat. The Mouse. Ruminat- 

 ing — The Goat and Sheep. Sheep Sliearing. xi. Sunday. — Christ, the Good 

 Shepherd. Quadrupeds — The Shejjherd's Dog. Ruminating — The Cow. Thick- 

 skinned — The Hog. The Horse and Ass. The Elephant. Reflections on the 

 Domestic Animals, xii. Sunday. — The Destruction of the fVorld, and the 

 Renovation of the Human Frame in a Future State. Fishes. Man — His Ex- 

 ternal Structure. His Intellectual Powers. His Moral Powers. Physical EfTects 

 of Climate. Moral EfTects of Climate, xiii. Sunday. — The Confusion of 

 Tongues. Man — Human Language. 



Haymaking— Pleasures of Rural Scenery. 



The Variety, Beauty, and Utility of Organized Existences. 



retrospective view of the argument. 

 Adaptation. Future Existence. Discipline. 

 XIV. Sunday. — The Day of Pentecost — One Language. 



VOL. IV.— AUTUMN. 



PHENOMENA, PRODUCE, AND LABORS OF THE SEASON. 



General Character of Autumn. Autumn in the City. Famine in the beginning 

 of Autumn. Autumnal Vegetation. Progress of Vegetation in the Corn Plants. 

 Harvest, i. Sunday. Stability of Nature. Gleaning. The Harvest Moon. 

 Harvest-Home. Storing of Corn. Birds. — Their State in Autumn. 



THE WOODS. 



Their Autumnal Appearance, ii. Sunday. — The Powers of the World to come. 

 The Woods. Their Uses. Various Kinds and Adaptations of Timber. 

 Origin of the Arts. — Food, Clothing, and Shelter. 



human food. 

 Its Principle. The Moral Operation of the Principle. Its Supply not inad- 

 equate. III. Sunday. — Christians '■'■Members one of another.'''' Provision for 

 the future. — Soil still uncultivated. Improved Cultivation. Means now in Ex- 

 istence. Vegetable and Animal Food. Fruits — Their Qualities. Drink, iv. 

 Sunday.— " TAe BremZ o/ A.i/e." Milk. Wine. Tea and Cofiee. Sugar. The 

 Pleasures connected with Food. Comparison between the Food of Savage and 

 Civilized Man. v. Sunday. — " Give us this Day our daily Bread." Agriculture 

 of the Greeks.— Their Harvest. Agriculture of the Romans. Their Harvest. 

 Progress of British Agriculture. Modern Continental Agriculture. 



HUMAN CLOTHING. 



Its Principle. Its Primitive State, vi. Sunday. — The Emptiness of Human 

 Attainments. Its Ancient History. Commercial History of the Raw Material. 

 The Silk Manufacture. — Its Modern History. History of Mechanical Contrivances 

 connected with it. Rearing of the Cocoons, &;c. The Cotton Manufacture. — Its 

 Foreign History, vii. Sunday. — The Intellectual and Moral Enjoyments of 

 Heaven. The Cotton Manufacture — Its British History. Improvement of Ma- 

 chinery. Its American History. — Introduction of Steam Power. The Woollen 

 Manufacture. — Its History. The Art of Bleaching. The Art of Dyeing. — Its 

 Origin and Ancient History, viii. Sunday. — The Social and Religious Enjoy- 

 ments of Heaven. The Art of Dyeing. — Its Modern History. Its Chemical 

 Principles. 



ARCHITECTURE. 



Its Principle. Its original State. — Materials employed. Tools employed. Its 

 Modifications by the Influence of Habit and Religion, ix. Sunday. — The Chil- 

 dren of the World iviser than the Children of Light. Architecture. — Ancient His- 

 tory and Practice. — Egypt. — Thebes. The Pyramids. India. — Excavated Temples. 

 Central Asia. — Tower of Babel, or Temple of Belus. Babylon. Nineveh. Petra. 

 Greece, x. Sttnday. — Divine Strength made perfect in Human Weakness. Rome. 

 The Gothic Style. Britain. Bridges. Aqueducts. Railways, xi. Sunday. — An 

 Autumnal Sabbath Evening. Prospective Imi)rovement of Locomotive Power. 

 Lighthouses— The Eddystone Lighthouse. The Thames Tunnel. 



