278 NOTE CONCLUSORY. 



time ; impressing the unchangeableness of nature within any 

 age which we can grasp, and deepening all reasons for a per- 

 fect trust in nature's author. It is a smaller advantage, and 

 perhaps will appear a more doubtful one, that the discussion 

 has led to views respecting the varieties of animated being 

 which tend greatly to simplify that subject. With these re- 

 marks with a mind sensitive only to the fear of error, but 

 calm in the conviction of truth and the beneficence and beauty 

 of whatever is true willing to think the best of other men's 

 opinions, and claiming, in the spirit of social kindness, tole- 

 rance for my own I respectfully take my leave. 



