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and character of their originator ; and as the highest good of these 

 consists in knowing as much about him as is possible for them to 

 know, and thereby being made as hke him in character as it is 

 possible for them to be ; for this one grand ultimate end was that 

 amazing scheme for man's elevation, with all its tremendous conse- 

 quences, originated and put in operation) which so far transcends 

 man's most exalted powers to fully comprehend, and which is in so 

 many respects contrary to the instincts of his nature, thereby call- 

 ing forth the violent opposition of many ; yet nothing else that has 

 ever been proposed can fully meet the desperate needs, satisfy 

 the aspirations and reconcile the contradictions of his nature at all 

 comparably with it, thus indelibly stamping it with the imprint of its 

 author. And although man must ever be the most directly and 

 personally interested in the development of that scheme, so far- 

 reaching and extended are the influences flowing from it, that the 

 very loftiest intelligences of the universe are obtaining, by means of 

 it, higher and yet higher conceptions of the author of their being, 

 as the unlimited resources in the magnitude of the plan, and the 

 wealth of beneficence in its execution are being gradually disclosed 

 to their view, until man, the creature of the dust, and the close rela- 

 tion of the beasts that perish, is to them through his connection 

 with it, an object of special interest, and this globe, so insignificant 

 in itself amid the splendors of the celestial spheres, a centre of at- 

 traction on account of the events that are transpiring on it, by means 

 of which they are obtaining such an insight into the character of its 

 author as they have obtained in no other way. And as time rolls 

 on they are ever and anon overwhelmed with new and astounding 

 disclosures of that character, as the marvelous purposes involved in 

 it are gradually unfolded before their wondering gaze, until all celes- 

 tial language fails to give utterance to the depth of their emotions, 

 and they are represented to us as endeavoring to find expression for 

 them by veiled faces and prostrate forms before him, who is now to 

 them a visible and measurably comprehensible manifestation in 

 human form of the great invisible and incomprehensible originator 

 of all things. 



Such then is my condensation of the subject Man Scientifically 

 Considered in so far as the language at my command has enabled 

 me to express it. 



