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ever-changing drama is a problem beyond the reach of saint or 

 sage. The universe is obviously the manifestation of a mighty 

 will in constant action. If the past history of our world may 

 be taken as a basis for an argument respecting the future inten- 

 tions of that will, we may well believe that all present pheno- 

 mena, including the human race, will pass away as completely 

 as the sauroids of the lias. Man's egotism has prompted him 

 to believe that the human being is the great end and object of 

 creation, but geology suggests that, like other denizens of this 

 globe, the human race is only here in order to prepare the v/ay 

 for nobler successors. There is no excuse for the assumption 

 that, in the construction of such a creature as man, The 

 Marvellous Creative Will exhausted all its powers of invention, 

 and came to the end of its resources. GE. 



The World the Expression of One Thought. 



To one who has never studied the mechanism of a watch, its 

 main-spring or the balance-wheel is a mere piece of metal. He 

 may have looked at the face of the watch, and while he admires 

 the motion of its hands, and the time it keeps, or the tune it 

 plays, he may have wondered in idle amazement as to the 

 character of the machinery which is concealed within. Take 

 it to pieces and show him each part separately ; he will recog- 

 nise neither design nor adaptation nor relation between them j 

 but put them together, set them to work, point out the offices 

 of each spring, wheel, and cog, explain their movements, and 

 then show him the result ; now he perceives that it is all one 

 design ; that, notwithstanding the number of parts, their diverse 

 forms and various offices, and the agents concerned, the whole 

 piece is of one thought, the expression of one idea. He now 

 perceives that when the main-spring was fashioned and tempered, 

 its relation to all the other parts must have been considered, 

 that the cogs on this wheel are cut and regulated adapted 

 to the rachets on that, &c., and his conclusion will be that 

 such a piece of mechanism could not have been produced by 

 chance ; the adaptation of the parts is such as to show it to be 

 according to design, and obedient to the will of one intelligence. 

 So, too, when one looks out upon the face of this beautiful world, 



