Notice of Harvey’s Marine Alga of North America. 
analysis can afford him no help. He has laid bare the “‘ mechanism of 
the heavens ;” he has weighed the sun and the planets; he has fore- 
told with unerring certainty events which shall happen a thousand 
years after he shall be laid in the dust;—and yet he cannot unravel 
the mystery that shrouds the seat of life, even as it exists in the meanest 
thing that crawls. And if the life of this poor worm be thus wonder- 
that humanity which, but a moment ago, seemed like the small dust in 
the balance compared with the multitude and the masses of the stars ? 
His 8 conceptions of his own true position in the scale of being become 
which the ‘coursers of the sun’ are held in stent seams track ? 
How ?—but by the intellectual powers of that human spirit which but 
now I deemed so poor and mean:—so unworthy of the very thought 
of the Almighty—much more so unworthy of the price which He has 
paid for it.’ 
‘Thus the mind, turned back upon itself, begins to discover that, 
after all, it is not ‘of the earth, earthy,’ but — from a higher 
source and reserved for a higher destiny. And strange to say, this 
altered and bettered opinion of itself is traceable to the first check 
which it feels—the first baflling of its analytical powers. So long as 
the mind oe the sphere of its researches into the material 
universe, weighing, and numbering, and tabulating, all nature seemed 
to move in blind obedience to a force whose influence might be calcu- 
lated ; 3 every world being found to act upon its fellow in exact propor- 
tion to its position and its weight, and our world to be but a part, and a 
small part of one vast machine. And with such a view of the relation 
of the earth to the universe, might not unnaturally come a lower esti- 
mate of man the dweller on the earth. ‘Is he too but a part in the 
house in which he dwells? Is his course also subject to those immuta- 
laws which bind the universe together? And if so, where is his 
individuality where the reflex of that image in which he is said to 
ve been created ?? But the moment that the mind apprehends the 
action of the inexplicable laws of mi and is certified of the individu- 
ality of every living thing however small ;—and compares these micro- 
Pap va: ‘wholes’ with the ‘ whole’ shai it foals itself to be, that moment 
gins to see that the human sou ul is a something: apart from the 
world in and over which it is placed 
“wie I nd that half views of natural sci- 
nat 
of pu of intellectual pleasure. It places before us 
Structu most exquisite in form and delicate in material ; the per- 
tion of these wonderful and Prey soit 
Soe Gane 
_ our minds are properly balanced, we shall not rest satisfied with a mere 
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