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directing all that is, as it has directed every thing in past 

 times. 



An advanced knowledge of Nature leads to a profound con- 

 viction that the enigmas of the natural world and of human life 

 can only be solved by a belief in an Almighty Creator, and in 

 the creation of the heaven and the earth by Divine wisdom 

 according to an eternal and preconceived plan. 



Nature, as well as the heart of man, bears witness to the ex- 

 istence of God; and it is only when seen from this point of 

 view that the marvellous geological history of Switzerland, with 

 its plants and animals, appears in its true light, and affords the 

 highest gratification. 



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CALIFORNIA. 



