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and which every tiling contains. in the last 

 part of this discourse, there was a calmness, a 

 clearness of perception, an unaffected and unre- 

 strained manifestation of the contemplative and 

 religious observer, which greatly added to its 

 force, and which involuntarily recalled that book 

 which speaks of the creation of the earth and 

 the human race. The similarity was avoided 

 rather than sought ; it was not to be found in 

 the words, but the ideas ; and at once flashed 

 across the minds of his auditors, when the great 

 professor declared, that each being contains in 

 itself an infinite variety, an admirable arrange- 

 ment for the purposes for which it is intended ; 

 that each being is good, perfect, and capable of 

 life, each according to its order and species, and 

 in its individuality. In the whole of this lecture 

 there was an omnipresence of the Omnipotent 

 and Supreme Cause ; the examination of the 

 visible world seemed to touch upon the invisible ; 

 the search into creation, necessarily invoked 

 the presence of the Creator ; it seemed as if the 

 veil were to be torn from before us, and science 

 was about to reveal eternal wisdom. Great then, 

 was the effect produced by the concluding sen- 

 tences, which seemed to bear a prophetic sense, 

 and which were the last he ever addressed to his 



