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ture and density, changes by life and death; 

 and all that there may be no change. It de- 

 stroys that it may live, while apparently living 

 only that it may destroy. Every part of it is 

 volatilized, undergoes disintegration, seemingly 

 passes away ; and yet the whole endures, retain- 

 ing its eternal youth and its eternal beauty. 



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Nature 

 maintain- 

 ing the 

 existing 

 order. 



