6 Notice of Harvey's Marine Alg@ of North America. 
sreee 3 a practical illustration of his discourse without sufficient knowl- 
ed This subject is too important for casual discussion, and de- 
serves the careful consideration of those in whose hands the education 
of the clergy rests. These are not days in which persons who ought 
to be our guides in matters of doctrine can afford to be behind the rest 
of the world in knowledge; nor can they safely sneer at the ‘‘ knowl- 
edge that puffeth up,” until, iets the Apostle, they have sounded its 
depths and abet its shallow 
y should the study of tbe piace oi oe be supposed to have 
an evil shdeade on the mind—a tendency to lead men to doubt every 
truth which cannot be made the direct gee of analysis or experi- 
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ment can conceive a one-sided scientific education having this 
tendency. If the mind be propelled altogether in one direction, and 
that direction lead exclusively to analytical cate it is possible that 
the other faculties of the individual may become clouded or enfeebled 
—and then he is the unresisting slave of Eadie more a rational 
being than any other monomaniac. And yet, paradoxical though the 
assertion seem, he may be all his life a reasoner, forming pice” 
and inductions with the most rigid accuracy, in his beaten tra 
©] can conceive too the katren nomer, conversant with the hintnetiaty 
re) 
the majesty of the material creation, as not only to lose sight of 
self and of the whole race to which he belongs, but of the oe or 
even of the solar system, and be led ‘to doubt whether things so poor, 
and mean, and small can have any value in the sight of the Lord of so 
wide a dominion. I can conceive him, too, observing the uniformity 
and the harmony of the laws that govern the whole system of the 
heavens ; the undeviating course of all events among the stars coming 
not be accounted for by the law of gravitation, and made the subject 
of calculation by the mathematician, who, working an equation in his 
closet, shall come forth and declare the cause of ‘reegotatity, though 
that cause may be acting at thousands of millions of miles distance—I 
of gravitation, can I believe that 2c interferes Py his Providence to 
superintend the puny matters of this lower worl 
“‘ His reasons seem plausible while the mind is pointed in that one 
direction. But they lose all their force when, laying aside for a 
froin the. speck beneath his lens, it spreads wider a Pfier, and at 
pa eal with cba! at jhe tia Hine Here his boasted 
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