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but can only divine it through the ideas by which it 

 manifests itself; so the investigator of nature, in seeking 

 to present cosmical relations, is penetrated by the convic- 

 tion that the number of impelling, forming, and producing 

 powers or forces of the material universe, is far indeed 

 from having been exhausted by the results hitherto ob- 

 tained, either by immediate observation, or by the analysis 

 of phenomena. 



