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sible to suppose that they stand in the same rela- 

 tion to the Will of the Supreme ; yet it seems as 

 if He took the same method of dealing with them 

 —never violating them, never breaking them, but 

 always ruling them by that which we call Adjust- 

 ment or Contrivance. Nothing gives us such an 

 idea of the immutability of Laws as this ! nor 

 does anything give us such an idea of their pli- 

 ability to use. How imperious they are, yet how 

 submissive ! How they reign, yet how they serve ! 



