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PHYS. In my opinion, profound minds 

 are the most likely to think lightly of the 

 resources of human reason : it is the pert 

 superficial thinker who is generally strongest 

 in .every kind of unbelief. The deep phi- 

 losopher sees chains of causes and effects so 

 wonderfully and strangely linked together, 

 that he is usually the last person to decide 

 upon the impossibility of any two series of 

 events being independent of each other ; and 

 in science, so many natural miracles, as it 

 were, have been brought to light, such as 

 the fall of stones from meteors in the atmo- 

 sphere, the disarming a thunder cloud by a 

 metallic point, the production of fire from 

 ice by a metal white as silver, and referring 

 certain laws of motion of the sea to the 

 moon, that the physical enquirer is sel- 

 dom disposed to assert, confidently, on any 

 abstruse subjects belonging to the order of 

 natural things, and still less so on those re- 

 lating to the more mysterious relations of 

 moral events gtnd intellectual natures. 



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