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mathematical proportion in the rates of vibration of the different rays. What 

 then should be the inference from the mass of data I have so hastily thrown 

 together 1 Surely this ; there is a correspondence between the plan of Nature 

 and the mind of Man, which plainly indicates their common origin : and more, 

 their common origin in a Mind cognate with that of Man ; which has impressed 

 its image on our little mental world as on the mighty Universe around lis. 

 I do not say, indeed, that this is proved as against any who maintain the origin 

 of things in blind material force ; the pattern and impress of whose action 

 would be identical in both its products, Man and Nature. But such con- 

 siderations are, in their way, as forcible, by way of illustration, as Paley's 

 argument, based on mere utility. 



Should Maphological Science at any time succeed in effacing the destinc- 

 tion between the organic and inorganic world, (no inconceivable result, when 

 we remember that the phenomena of crystallization suggest an analogy between 

 the two,) enlightened Faith will only find the very thing she was prepared for, 

 and behind the study of form, chemistry begins to think of the ultimate 

 revelation of a single substance of all created things. The modern doctrine, 

 already glanced at, that all Force is of a single type, carries still further these 

 notions of absolute cosmical unity ; it being (as I have said) already ascertained 

 that Heat, Electricity, Galvanism, Chemical affinity, and others of the physical 

 Forces, can exchange effects with one another, and with Mechanical Force. 

 No scientific mind, on which this doctrine of the unity and conservation of 

 physical Force has taken hold, will ever part from it again. There is a growing 

 conviction that Gravity, at one end of the scale, Vital Force at the other, will, 

 in the end, appear reducible to a common form. Nature thus proving a very 

 Proteus ; and the varied forms of Force so many masks of a Dynamic Unity. 

 Strange, after all, it is, that in this grand convergence of Scientific thought 

 upon the one idea of perfect Unity, in form and substance, power and purpose, 

 any man can fail to find increased assurance of that undying hope, that 

 indestructible belief in, — 



"That God, which ever lives and loves, 

 One God, one hand, one element, 

 And one far-off divine event, 

 To which the whole creation moves." 



