592 CONCLUSION. 



on the elevation which others have already reached, he yet 

 knows nothing of those wondrous operations, which are the 

 essential parts of every one of those complicated functions by 

 which the life of the body is sustained. Why one cell should 

 absorb, why another, that seems exactly to resemble it, 

 should assimilate, why a third should secrete, why a fourth 

 should prepare the reproductive germs, and why, of the two 

 germs that seem exactly similar, one should be developed into 

 the simplest Zoophyte, and another into the complex fabric of 

 Man, are questions that Physiology is not likely ever to 

 answer. All our science is but the investigation of the mode 

 or plan on which the Creator acts ; the Power which operates' 

 is Infinite, and therefore inscrutable to our limited eompre- 1 

 hension. But when Man shall have passed through this 

 embryo state, and shall have undergone that metamorphosis 

 by which everything whose purpose was temporary shall be 

 thrown aside, and his permanent or immortal essence shall 

 alone remain, then, we are encouraged to believe, his finite 

 mind shall be raised more nearly to the character of the Infi- 

 nite, all his highest aspirations shall be gratified, and never- 

 ending sources of delightful contemplation shall be continually 

 opening to his view. The Philosopher who has attained the 

 highest summit of mortal wisdom, is he who, if he use his 

 mind aright, has the clearest perception of the limits of human 

 knowledge, and the most earnest desires for the lifting of the 

 veil that separates him from the Unseen. He, then, has the 

 strongest motives for that humility of spirit and purity of 

 heart, without which, we are assured, none shall see God. 



