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CHAPTER and fuller disclosures of the wisdom, the power, the 

 XXWII. goodness, and the infinite greatness, of Him who re- 

 Oreatness moveth the mountains and they know not ; who over- 

 thc Creator" turneth them in his an2;er : who shaketh the earth out 

 of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble ; who com- 

 mandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up the 

 stars; who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and tread- 

 eth upon the waves of the sea ; who maketh Arcturus, 

 Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south, . . . 

 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no cover- 

 ing. He stretcheth out the north over the void, and 

 hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the 

 waters in his thick clouds ; and the cloud is not rent 

 under them. He holdeth back the face of his throne, 

 and spreadeth his cloud upon it. He hath compassed 

 the waters with bounds, until the day and the night 

 come to an end. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are 

 astonished at his reproof. He divideth the sea with his 

 power, and by his understanding he smiteth through 

 the proud. By his spirit he hath garnished the hea- 

 vens; lo, these are part of his ^cays; hut how little a por- 

 timits of tio7i is heard of him ? The thunder of his poioer xoho can 

 I'edire."^^" understand? Such were the reflections of the ancient 

 patriarch of Uz, while yet the discoveries and the appli- 

 ances of science were all unknown, and yet they come 

 to us now with even more power when armed with all 

 the revelations of modern science, and instructed by the 

 profound reflections of an observer like Humboldt, who 

 brings all the most valuable discoveries, and all the disclo- 

 sures of his own extensive experience, to aid in elucidat- 

 ing the phenomena with which we are surrounded. 



The same interesting popular author, whose general 

 reflection on the harmony of the universe have already 

 been referred to, thus remarks on that mo.st interesting, 

 though extremely limited point of our own system, to 

 which attention has been so vividly attracted by recent 

 illustrations, drawn from it in elucidation of terrestrial 

 phenomena : — " It is scarcely possible," observes Profes- 



