GENERAL VIEW OF THE HUMAN SYSTEM. 2 



imagine any form or structure more perfect, more elegant, more 

 grand and commodious 7 What do you judge of man's erect pos- 

 ture ? his beauteous shape ^ his proper stature 1 the structure and 

 accuracy of its parts 7 the fitness of every part to its office and 

 end 1 What sparkling brightness in the eyes ! what sweet melody 

 in the voice ! how quick the ears to receive all manner of sounds ! 

 how nicely adjusted are the palate and taste to all sorts of food ! 

 What a noble instrument is the tongue ! hence speech and elo- 

 quence, oratory and persuasion. What wonders appear in the hand 

 of man ! its formation and astonishing variety^ of uses ! what 

 majesty in thence / how immensely different are the countenances 

 of men ! what endless differences in their voices and hand- writing I 

 What a striking proof of God in the soul of man ! 



The powers of man's mind show him to be almost a divine exist- 

 ence. Se thinks ; he is conscious of internal acts ; he forms ideas 

 of all things ; he reasons on his thoughts ; he perceives an infinite 

 variety of objects ; he reflects on these images of things in his 

 mind ; he re-collects his thoughts, and surveys their agreement with 

 objects and their difference from each other ; he brings all past 

 ages, and time present, to his mind, and views the transactions of 

 men and revolutions of empires for thousands of years \ he can 

 recollect a thousand, ten thousand, a million facts at once ; he 

 makes them pass in quick succession before the eyes of his mind ; 

 he marks the different natures and tendency of men's actions; 

 sees how one kind have a direct influence upon his peace and hap- 

 piness, while others issue in ruin, devastation, and death. He 

 commands the future time to the present view of his vast and 

 mighty mind ; foretells the consequences of actions ; penetrates the 

 dark, veil of future ages, calculates or predicts the wonders of an 

 eclipse for hundreds of years past or to come,* and dives into the 

 condition of men for ten thousand years to come. He pursues a 

 mental tour round the earth, and ranges his thoughts all over the 

 skies : he roves from planet to planet, from sun to sun, from world 

 to world, almost to infinity ! How great is the resemblance of the 

 human soul to God ! His existence and omnipresent agency is 

 clearly seen in it. The invisibility of the soul demonstrates the 

 invisible God. 



