" We conceive that this state of things has had a beginning; we 

 conceive that it will have an end. But in the meantime we find it 

 fitted, by a number of remarkable arrangements, to be the habitation 

 of living creatures." 



WHEWBLL'S -BRIDGKWATEK TKEATISE," p. 204. 



44 Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, 

 And the thoughts of men arc widen'd with the process of the suns." 



LOCKSLEY HALL. 



