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whole population of Greenland from starvation in the follow- 

 ing hard winter ? If all this is the result of insubstantial 

 natural laws, whence this wonderful inter-dependance and 

 connection of subordinate forces, to bring to pass events 

 which have so deep an influence on the history of 

 humanity? We do, indeed, see into the mechanism of 

 the puppet ; but Who holds the strings, and directs all 

 its motions to One Purpose ? Here closes the office 

 of the naturalist, and, instead of answering, he turns 

 from the world of space and lifeless matter upward to 

 where, in holy anticipation, we seek the Ruler of 

 Worlds. 



